The Alpha King's Human Mate by HC Dolores

“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”

David Ogden Stiers?

As I stared into his dark eyes, I didn’t doubt he was telling the truth.

If I ran, Griffin would surely come after me.

There’s no getting out of this. O

Even as the frightening realization washed over me, I couldn’t look away from him. He was staring at me in a way that nobody had ever looked at me

with pure devotion. As if I hung the stars or the moon in the sky with my very breath.

with

I’d seen that look plenty of times. I saw it in the mated couples at school, at pack functions, and even in the way my father and Grace looked at each other. Mated couples seemed to exist in their own orbit, and I’d be lying if I said I’d never been jealous.

It’s not that the idea of a soul mate wasn’t appealing, it was all the baggage that came with being chained to a wolf. D

I’d long since accepted that nobody was going to look at me with pure devotion and I was okay with that. The trade-off was an easy human life, where I’d be free to do and go as I please.

Griffin continued to look at me with hungry dark eyes.

My breath hitched.

His eyes flickered to my lips.

Is he going to kiss me?

I should’ve protested or turned away but I felt almost hypnotized by his gaze – all

I could see was him and all I could smell was his damned natural scent.

He leaned in.

I closed my eyes, waiting for his lips to touch mine. [2

And then suddenly he was off me, sitting on the other side of the bed.

–

My eyes flew open and I stared at him. what the fuck was that? Surely, he was about to kiss me right there?

Griffin smirked. “Sorry, did

Of course he had been messing with me. I had just tried to convince him he’d be better off with someone else, and

of

yourself together, Clark. It’s not

cheek. His tone was mocking. “I just wanted to see if the mate bond affected you at all since you’re not a wolf. And now I have my

him that I’d felt nothing, but the proof was in the pudding – he’d seen the way I’d closed my eyes, ready to kiss him. And had he actually kissed me, I

hated feeling embarrassed and I was not about to let him think I was some obedient little mate just because

of all,” I said, practically hissing at him, “My name

all, that doesn’t prove I’m affected by the mate bond – it just proves I’m attracted to you. You’re hot, I’m sure you already know this. I would’ve been affected

was so caught up in making my point that I didn’t see the

talking and I caught sight of Griffin’s threatening

– what did

mad that I called him hot? That was

fox?” Griffin

“Have I what?”

let other men kiss

great of course my possessive Alpha mate wants a

an idiot. Why the hell did I ever think it was a good idea to mention

think of a response that wouldn’t piss him off. Although I’d known Griffin less than a day, one thing was abundantly clear: he

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you weren’t mated to, but it was heavily frowned upon. I could

first times for our mates. She’d said that innocence was a virtue and the “purer” we kept ourselves, the happier our mates would be. Even at thirteen, it had felt like a lot of BS to me –

yet here

I get out of

his dark gaze, “Does it really matter? That’s all in the

–

the future is going to be me getting the hell out of dodge and

growled, “If you let others touch you,

thing, so you can’t exactly hold any of this against me. You don’t see me asking

change the subject. Tell me – I want to

that Griffin wasn’t going to let this go regardless of how much I tried to reason. I guess I could’ve

fine,” I sighed, “I’ll tell you but you can’t get mad about

we’ll see,” he

ever had one boyfriend and the whole thing was pretty short-lived,” I said, and another blush came

–

on the bed, leaning over me again. His face was so close I could smell his minty breath and

Well, this feels familiar.

“Did he touch you?”

I swallowed.