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?

smirked. “Sorry, did you think something else was going to happen,

convince him he’d be better off with someone

of

yourself together, Clark. It’s not you, it’s

look so upset, little fox,” Griffin smirked, reaching over to cup my cheek. His tone was mocking. “I just wanted to see if the mate bond affected you

that I’d felt nothing, but the proof was in the pudding – he’d seen the way I’d

let him think I was some obedient little mate just because I happened

at him, “My

know. Second of 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

up in making my point that I didn’t see the playful smirk fade from Griffin’s face or the dark expression that

caught sight of

what did I

called him hot? That

fox?” Griffin hummed, leaning closer

“Have I what?”

let other men

my possessive Alpha mate wants a

hell did I ever think it was

response that wouldn’t piss him off. Although I’d known Griffin less than a day, one thing was abundantly clear: he was possessive. Probably more possessive than any other wolf I’d

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with people you weren’t mated to, but it was heavily frowned upon. I could still remember being thirteen, sitting in the back of the werewolf

explaining how sex worked, she’d also told us that we should save our first times for our mates. She’d said that innocence was a virtue and the “purer” we kept ourselves, the

here I

how do I get

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

–

going to be me getting the hell out of dodge and

matters,” he growled, “If you

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

his eyes. “Don’t try to change the subject. Tell me –

this go regardless of how much I tried to reason. I guess

“I’ll tell you but you can’t get mad

we’ll see,” he

was pretty short-lived,” I said, and another blush came over my face, “Lasted a few

–

expression darkened even more. He stood up and approached where I was sitting on the bed, leaning over me again. His face was so close I

Well, this feels familiar.

“Did he touch you?”

I swallowed.