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?

must’ve shown on my face because Griffin smirked. “Sorry, did you think something else

had just tried to convince him he’d

of what?

together, Clark. It’s not

to 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 now I have my

was in the pudding – he’d seen the way I’d closed my eyes, ready to kiss

and I was not about to let him think I was some obedient

said, practically hissing at him, “My name

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

point that I didn’t see the playful smirk fade from Griffin’s face or the

I caught sight of Griffin’s threatening expression,

he’s pissed – what did I say

not mad that I called him hot? That was a compliment if anything!

fox?” Griffin hummed, leaning closer

“Have I what?”

let other men

great of course my possessive Alpha mate wants a breakdown of my

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

Although I’d known Griffin less than a day, one thing was abundantly clear: he was possessive. Probably more possessive

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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 werewolf version of sex

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 happier our mates would be. Even at thirteen, it had felt like a lot of BS to me – but I

yet here

I get out of

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

–

to be me getting the hell out of dodge and hopefully

you let others touch

me. You don’t see me asking for all the dirty details of your sexual

the subject. Tell me – I want to know who there was

this go regardless of how much I tried to reason. I guess I could’ve lied and said I’d never dated anyone but something told

sighed, “I’ll tell you but you can’t get

we’ll see,”

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

–

even more. He stood up and approached where I was sitting on the bed, leaning over me

Well, this feels familiar.

“Did he touch you?”

I swallowed.