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?

on my face because Griffin smirked. “Sorry, did you think something else was going to

to convince him he’d be

because of what?

Clark. It’s not you, it’s

cup my 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

tell 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

I was some obedient

said, practically hissing at him, “My name is Clark. You can

just proves I’m attracted to you. You’re hot, I’m sure you already know this. I would’ve been affected the same way had another hot guy been up in my

I didn’t see the

finally stop talking and I caught sight of Griffin’s threatening expression, I shakily

– what did

that I called him hot? That was a compliment if anything!

have you, little fox?” Griffin hummed, leaning closer to

“Have I what?”

you let other

Alpha mate

it was

Griffin less than a day, one thing was abundantly clear: he was possessive. Probably more

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to, but it was heavily frowned upon. I could still remember being thirteen, sitting in the back of the werewolf version of sex ed as the teacher explained it to

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 happier our mates would be. Even

yet here

get

“Does it really matter? That’s all in the past the future will be

–

me getting the hell out of dodge and hopefully

course it matters,” he growled, “If you let others

had no idea about this mate thing, so you can’t exactly hold any of this against me. You don’t see me asking for all the dirty details of

try to change the subject. Tell me – I want

tried to reason. I

fine,” I sighed, “I’ll tell you but you

we’ll see,”

short-lived,” I said, and another blush came over

–

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

Well, this feels familiar.

“Did he touch you?”

I swallowed.