All Chapters of HIS Little One : Chapter 21 - Chapter 28

Something was wrong. I didn’t have proof. No phone call. No message. We were getting there, tho Just this… pull in my chest. This itch under my skin like the bond between us was being stretched, slipping further out of reach. She should’ve come back by now. She always ran when she was overwhelmed. I got that from the few times I have watched her. But she didn’t stay gone. Not like this. 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 che

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

They were circling each other like wolves.It was no worse. Wolves had rules and restraint. This? This was something else entirely. Well, Asher was a wolf, but for Christ's sake, he is half-human, and what’s with all the talk about me looking half-dead?I know I haven’t had the time for proper care or to look at the mirror but it couldn’t be that bad, right?“Asher, she’s in Fae territory,” Arlo said tightly. “She should remain here where she’s already under protection”“Protection?” Asher’s laugh was low and full of teeth. “You mean letting her wander around like a ghost? Letting her starve herself in a dark corner while you stood back and watched?”“I didn’t watch..”“You didn’t do anything.”“Enough!” the king barked, his voice cold and commanding. This is not the place for childish pissing contests. The girl is exhausted. Decisions can wait.”“I’m standing right here,” I muttered, voice cracking under the weight of everything. No one heard me.Asher stepped forward, gaze locked on

I was still trying to breathe.Still trying to remember where I was.Present. Safe. Out.The wind moved through the trees again, brushing my skin like it was trying to ground me. Asher stood close, his body tense like he’d sensed the shift, even if I hadn’t said a word.But thenI felt him.Before I saw him.The air shifted, pulled tight as string stretched too far. A familiar buzz tingled in my spine, not entirely unpleasant, but sharp. Fae magic.I turned my head just slightly.Arlo.He stood several paces away, half in shadow, half out, eyes fixed on me like he’d been called here by something deeper than sound.His brows were furrowed.And then—His eyes widened.Just barely.But I saw it.That snap of recognition.He had seen something.A piece of it.The tail end of the memory is still fresh in my veins the collar, the chains, the cold smirk on Victor’s face. Arlo had brushed against my mind. Not on purpose, maybe. But he saw.He stepped back.Not like he was afraid of me—but of