His Sweet Little Mate novel (Abby and Micah) novel Chapter 135

As they hoped, when the sun almost disappeared, Alpha Samuel joined the searching party led jointly by Dax and Mirella when they were about half way down this deep valley, the bottom of which was still out of their sight.

Seeing the alpha arrive with his warriors, Dax immediately shifted back to his human form and filled him in on the situation along with the witch.

“Because of the dense vegetation around here, it is quite hard to pick their scents.” The royal gamma was clearly frustrated when he expressed that he couldn’t reach Micah at all. “I don't know how, but I can’t contact him through the mindlink, either.”

“Okay, let’s not give chance for anything to discourage us, we will find them.” Alpha Samuel reassured him.

The royal gamma’s fear was not something unwarranted, because it was almost a day since Micah and Abby went missing at a time like this, when a dark sorcerer like Calpin was running rampant with the rogues no more than puppets in his hands.

“We can not let them fall into the enemies’ hands!”

Just like protecting the kingdom and its people’s welfare was the King’s duty, protecting their sovereign was the topmost priority of the royal warriors. Everyone has their own role to fulfill!

Only Dax couldn’t help but dread the thought of what would happen if they failed like the last time, where Calpin managed to corner the king and lady Abby right in front of their eyes before hurting them gravely…

“This is driving me crazy,” Dax admitted. “But I won't stop until I bring them both back safely.”

He was normally a carefree soul, with easy going nature and a goofy personality, but once he set his mind on something, it was hard for anyone to change his mind.

“And we will make sure you do!” The alpha squeezed Dax’s shoulder, silently telling him that they shared the same goal.

The witch was silent as the royal gamma explained further to Samuel how they couldn’t find a single trace of them along their way down here. “But it’s hard to confirm where exactly they fell, so we are searching every inch down their possible trajectory.”

“Mirella, do you have any way to locate them?” Alpha Samuel looked at the witch, pulling her out of her thoughts.

“Yes, I do and I’m sure I’ll be able to trace them immediately if it works,” Mirella said, folding her hands across her chest.

Since the shifters couldn’t trace their scents, she came up with an idea to locate them, but it was not as simple as she stated.

“Queen Abby is the focal point of this method.” Mirella didn’t know if they could understand her words. But she went ahead and explained her idea to them briefly anyway. “She has to use her fire magic.”

She then explained how magic would always leave traces behind, no matter how small, and Dax and Samuel didn’t know if it would be a good thing or bad thing for Abby to use magic.

“She would use it if only a special circumstance arises!” Dax tightened his jaw.

“But it will lead me to her equally quickly,” Mirella pointed out, even though she understood why they didn’t feel this method was ideal.

If Abby used her magic, it meant she and the king were in danger.

This was all very frustrating.

“We have limited options, let’s just keep our eyes and ears open for every possibility,” Alpha Samuel said, hoping things wouldn’t turn even more complicated than they already were.

“But she didn’t use her magic until now, so it means they were fine, but just stranded somewhere on this mountain, right?” Dax suddenly blurted out.

“You can say so,” Mirella nodded her head, hoping he was right. Because they could also be in a position where they couldn’t do anything. But she didn’t open her mouth, lest her speculation dampened their spirits.

“We just have to intensify our search then.” Dax felt reinvigorated.

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On her first attempt, Abby couldn’t really make Micah gulp any water down. With him being unconscious, it was pretty hard to pour water down his throat, but she didn’t give up.

He already lost so much blood, and with the chilly air around, if he got dehydrated as well, his condition might worsen even further, not to mention, she couldn’t make him take food even if she succeeded in finding some fruits.

So she concentrated on keeping his throat from going dry completely, as she let drop after drop into his slightly ajar lips. She hoped if he drank some water, out of instinct, when his body subconsciously craved water, her efforts would be paid.

“Thank Heavens!” Abby couldn’t help but pat her chest in relief, when she saw his throat work, even though quite minimally, finally letting some water into his system.

When she looked at his bloody face and arms, she decided it would be better to put this water to some other use, as she rushed back to the stream and brought more water.

After that, she stayed where she was, guarding her sleeping mate, not wanting to try her luck too much. Even though she felt quite exhausted, apart from silently pleading for Micah to stay with her, she wasn’t interested in anything.

She wanted to save her energy in case they encountered any wild beasts or rogues, since energy was what she needed to fight those off.

She still expended some of the last bit of her energy to keep Micah warm, though, or when she needed to make trips for more water.

However, when the night had fallen again and there were still no signs of her mate waking up, Abby felt her whole body turning numb from the emotional wreckage that kept challenging her system.

Only she knew how many times she roughly wiped at her tears, which kept spilling from her eyes every now and then, even though she tried hard to will them back.

Seeing him lying motionless like this, in this dark and depressing place, was taking a toll on her. But she seemed to have fallen asleep at some point of the night, because, the next thing she knew, paws thumping heavily on the ground startled her awake.