His Sweet Little Mate

Just as they agreed, Abby went to meet with Ezgar in the same garden the next evening.

However, she was running a little late, and by the time Abby reached the backyard, she could see Ezgar already waiting for her.

She immediately apologized for making him wait.

“I’m sorry, I was caught up with the decoration finalization and made you wait,” Abby said as soon as she was within earshot of Ezgar.

She really thought it wouldn’t take too much time when Alyssa reminded her she still needed to decide upon a few things about the decoration after her lunch.

She spent all the morning choosing flowers and then decoration, and almost came up with a few suitable ideas.

She thought it wouldn’t take too much of her time to finalize since she already settled on an idea.

But she didn’t expect it would take the entire afternoon, even though she was just ‘tying up the loose ends’ in her ideas for the decorations.

“It’s okay, it’s only been a few minutes since I came,” the man said, smiling at her.

Abby could tell he was just being polite and then sat on the bench when Ezgar urged her to relax her feet.

“Come sit, so that you could rest your feet as well, while taking a breather first,” Ezgar said.

And Abby noticed how thoughtful he was. He knew she was running here and there, taking care of a lot of things, so he was asking her to relax first.

“Thank you,” Abby said, feeling genuinely grateful. “But we can start right away.”

Abby knew she couldn’t hog his time just because he was the one to suggest helping her.

He was the son of the former royal beta, so of course, it would be a blatant lie if he were to say he didn’t have things way more important than helping a stranger whom he met just recently.

So she decided it wouldn’t be polite to take up too much of his time.

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“Are you sure? You look really tired,” Ezgar said, pointing at her dark circles that looked more obvious than yesterday.

“I just had a bad night, I’m okay,” Abby said.

Ezgar didn’t probe when she put it like that, for which Abby felt grateful yet again.

He had this sun-shine personality with the perks of easy going nature and reading the air. Abby didn’t find it hard to talk to him as they soon fell into a comfortable chat.

But then when they started to compose the speech, they couldn’t settle on a single idea.

It was too hard when they had to consider so many things.

“No, this doesn’t sound right,” Edgar couldn’t help but shake his head when the idea he came up with didn’t suit Abby at all.

Abby felt discouraged when nothing seemed to work for her speech.

They spent more than two hours but it wasn’t productive.

“I didn’t expect it would be this hard to string a few sentences together,” Ezgar said, making light of the situation when he noticed how the light in Abby’s eyes died out slowly but surely.

“It’s okay, we will come up with something, don’t worry,” Ezgar encouraged her again.

Seeing him like this, Abby felt her spirits lift up again.

But she couldn’t help but think how good it would have been if it was Micah helping her instead.

But then, Ezgar smiled at her again and she couldn’t help but see an older brother she never had.

She didn’t have a reason to envy Ruby until now. But she wouldn’t deny it if she was asked right now.

Ruby got a really good brother.

“We got this,” Ezgar told her again, when she just stared at him with this blank look as if she couldn’t take this set back.

But he was surprised when she smiled suddenly.

“Yeah, we got this,” Abby said.

Ezgar let out a sigh of relief when she finally got out of her bad mood.

“I reckon we have to wrap up for today,” he said, as he stood up to leave

“Yeah, it’s already dinner time,” Abby said and stood up as well

Ezgar then bade her goodbye before saying he would spend his night thinking of more ideas for her speech.

Abby came back to an empty room yet again.

Micah wasn’t back to dinner tonight either.

She thought of having the kitchen prepare a meal for him, but then discarded that idea when she thought it would only disrupt his plans for the night.

However, her thoughts were disrupted when both Alyssa and Reyna came to talk to her.

“What is it?” Abby asked them when they stood looking at each other’s faces instead of saying what was on their minds.

“Lady Abby, we don’t think it is wise enough for you to meet Mr. Ezgar so often,” Alyssa said after hemming and hawing for a while.

“Yes, Lady Abby, it might give rise to rumors which would be hard to deal with later,” Reyna took her fellow maid’s cue.

When they put it like that, it made Abby fall into a deep thought.

She fell silent, prompting her maids to keep quiet as well.

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She didn’t think much when Ezgar suggested he provide his help.

She just felt it was nice to finally have someone to talk to, other than Alyssa and Reyna, who weren’t her friends.

While Micah always came late and left early in the morning. She didn’t have anyone to talk to.

But then, within two days, Abby started seeing Ezgar as a brotherly figure she never had.

Even her only sister, Hanna, had never given the warmth she got from Ezgar in their two short meetings.

Now, after listening to Alyssa and Reyna, she couldn’t help but think it wasn’t really appropriate to meet Ezgar like that.

However, the problem was; she had promised to meet with him the next day again.

Even though he suggested helping her, it wouldn’t be pretty if she bailed out on him after making plans.

What should she do?