The Alpha King's Human Mate by HC Dolores

Chapter 21

“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?

because Griffin smirked. “Sorry, did you think something

red. Of course he had been messing with me. I had just tried to convince him he’d

of

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

cheek. His tone was mocking. “I just wanted to see

in the pudding – he’d seen the way

not about to let him think I was some obedient little mate just because I happened

practically hissing at him,

I’m attracted to you. You’re hot, I’m sure you already

making my point that I didn’t see the playful smirk

caught

– what

called him hot? That was a

have you, little fox?” Griffin

“Have I what?”

let other

Alpha mate wants a breakdown

Why the hell did I ever think it was a

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

might be missing out on the complete story. Head over there to dive into the next

possessive 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

said that innocence was a virtue and the “purer” we kept ourselves, the happier our mates would be. Even at thirteen, it had

yet here

do I get out of

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

–

getting the hell out of

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

about this 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 – I want to know who there was before

let this go regardless of how much I tried to reason. I guess I could’ve

you but you can’t get

we’ll see,” he

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

–

even more. He stood up and approached where I was sitting 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.

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