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?

did you think something else was going to happen, little

to convince

of what?

It’s not you, it’s the mate

fox,” Griffin smirked, reaching over to cup my cheek. His tone was mocking. “I just wanted to see if

was in the pudding – he’d seen the way I’d closed my eyes, ready to kiss him. And had he actually kissed

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

said, practically hissing at him, “My name is

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

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

stop talking and I caught sight of Griffin’s threatening

pissed – what did I

him hot? That

little fox?” Griffin hummed,

“Have I what?”

other

possessive Alpha mate wants a breakdown

the hell did I ever think it

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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but it was heavily frowned upon. I could still remember being thirteen, sitting in the back

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 hadn’t argued. It’s not like I ever

yet here I

do I get out of this

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

–

be me getting the hell out of dodge and hopefully away from

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

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

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

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

“I’ll tell you but you

see,” he scoffed.

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

–

approached where I was sitting on the bed, leaning over me again. His face was so

Well, this feels familiar.

“Did he touch you?”

I swallowed.