The Alpha King's Human Mate by HC Dolores

Chapter 17

“Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood.”

German Proverb

It was completely silent.

Nobody moved. Nobody spoke.

I was frozen, like a deer caught in the headlights or like a lamb spotted by the

wolf.

No.

No.

No. Nope. No way.

This is not happening. He can’t be talking about me.

Although I remained still, my eyes darted around the room, looking for some other person that the prince must’ve been talking about his real mate. Clearly, I was mistaken. There was no way he was talking about me.

But there was no one else.

He was looking at me.

And, when I say looking at me, I mean it.

His dark eyes roamed over my body, drinking me in like a starving man dying of thirst. I wondered if he could hear my heartbeat. I knew wolves had superior senses, and right now, it felt like my heart was trying to beat right out of my chest.

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We both just stared at each other for a good minute me in horror and him in something, I’m not sure what. O

When he finally did move, it happened so fast I wasn’t expecting it.

an anxiety attack, and the next, he had scooped me up and pressed me into his

since my face

–

I barely had time to register it, his hands felt divine. Everywhere

good too. Earthy. It wasn’t the smell of some cologne or perfume

his natural scent. I wanted to roll my entire body in

Oh, God.

is happening to

this the mate bond doing this to

his chest. “Mate. Mate. Mine. My mate.” He kept repeating the words over and over

his arms but I don’t think

nuzzle his face into my hair and inhale. He

I liked his.

“Griffin!”

I’d ever heard it. Instinctively, I jumped,

didn’t turn around to face the King. He continued to nuzzle

this? What are you doing with that girl?” The last word came out like a hiss and from the rumble in Griffin’s chest, I could tell he

my mate,” Griffin said but he still didn’t

you think I’m doing?”

roared. I couldn’t see his face but

was not happy about

son to take a human for a mate. My bloodline will not be sullied by one of her kind. Do you realize she

me tightened to the point where it was

but in that moment, I feared for my life. Was Griffin about to kill me? Would he end my life here and now so that he wasn’t mated to a

bond but I also didn’t want to

me didn’t budge. He must’ve felt my fear because he began stroking my hair. “Hush. It’s okay,

if his words actually comforted me,

going

Griffin? She is human! If you do not kill her, I will!”

time, Griffin didn’t ignore it. I hadn’t even processed the

threatened my life by the time Griffin spun around, pushing me

him.

scooped me up into his arms, I saw

the room

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