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

tomato red. Of course he had been messing with me. I had just tried to convince him he’d be better off with someone else, and only seconds later, I’m practically putty in his hands.

of what? A

It’s not you,

smirked, reaching over to cup my cheek. His tone was mocking. “I just wanted to see if the mate bond affected you at all since

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

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

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

just proves I’m attracted to you. You’re hot, I’m sure you already know this.

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

finally stop talking and I caught sight

what did I say

that I called him hot? That was a compliment

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

“Have I what?”

other men

my possessive Alpha mate wants a breakdown of my

ever think it was a good

my brain, trying to 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 was possessive. Probably more possessive than any other wolf I’d met if his speech

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by nature anyway. In the Blacktooth pack, it wasn’t against the rules to have sex 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

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

here I

do I get out of this

I finally said, avoiding his dark gaze, “Does it really matter?

–

the hell out of

growled, “If you let others

You don’t see me asking for all the dirty details of your sexual history and I highly doubt you were some innocent. virgin all these

subject. Tell me – I want to

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

tell you but you can’t get mad about it,

we’ll see,”

I said, and another blush came over my face, “Lasted a few

–

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

Well, this feels familiar.

“Did he touch you?”

I swallowed.