All Chapters of HIS Little One : Chapter 21 - Chapter 24

Something was wrong.I didn’t have proof. No phone call. No message.Just this… pull in my chest. This itch under my skin like the bond between us was fraying, slipping further out of reach.She should’ve come back by now.She always ran when she was overwhelmed. I got that. But she didn’t stay gone. Not like this. Not this long.I leaned back in my chair, jaw tight, fingers tapping the edge of my desk. My office was quiet except for the sound of my beta pacing near Ethan. Loyal to the bone. Deadly in a fight. He’d known me since we were kids, and he was smart enough to keep his mouth shut when I got like this.“Ethan,” I said finally, my voice low, steady. Dangerous. “Find her.”He didn’t even blink. “How far out?”“Wherever she went after the woods. She ran. She was upset. She didn’t come back.” My hands curled into fists. “She should’ve come back. At least to the restaurant”He nodded once, already moving. “I’ll check the security cams along the border. Maybe she headed toward town

The air changed the second I crossed the border.It wasn’t just colder. It was cleaner, sharper, like walking into a place too ancient to belong to the rest of the world. The sky overhead was silver instead of blue, and the trees hummed with power I didn’t trust and didn't like eitherI didn’t care.Let the magic bristle around me. Let the guards follow me with wide eyes and tense hands. They knew who I was. The name alone bought me silence.Asher Sanchez.There was weight in it. Power. History. The kind that made even the Fae step back.But names didn’t matter right now. Not really. Not when she was still gone. Not when I could still feel that bond like a thread wrapped tight around my chest, pulling, always pulling toward her. Ever since the day I met herAnd she was here. I knew it in my bones.The palace rose in the distance like it had grown out of the cliffs themselves, beautiful in a way that didn’t comfort, only warned.Two guards approached, pale armor gleaming.“I need an au