The Alpha King's Human Mate by HC Dolores

Chapter 32

Chapter 32

“Running away is easy. It’s the leaving that’s hard.” Samuel T. Herring

Alessia’s “theory” stuck with me for the entire five-hour plane ride ~ long after we stopped talking

and she fell asleep again. Her words sent a chill down my spine. Was Griffin really going to hunt me

like prey?

A couple of hours into the plane ride, I ended up falling asleep too

but it was plagued with nightmares.

In my dream, I was a fox sprinting across the foggy forest. I was running away from something – I

didn’t know what — and tried to hide in a hollowed-out tree. I could hardly make out my

surroundings while I was tucked in my little hiding spot, but then I saw it: the monster that was

chasing me.

It was a large black wolf, bigger than anything I’d ever seen with piercing dark eyes and sharp

canines. Its familiar dark eyes met mine, and I knew it had me trapped. There was nowhere to run,

and all I could do was watch as it stalked closer and closer. And then it pounced, razor-sharp canines

headed for me as I – I shot up in my plane seat, heart pounding. That was a hell of a dream. But it

wasn’t real — it was just a dream. *)

I normally wasn’t one to dissect dreams, but even that nightmare felt a little too on the nose to me. I

had been running in the wolves as a literal fox — which was Griffin’s favorite nickname for me —

and the predator chasing me had been a wolf. Could the meaning get any more obvious than that? (°

Clearly, I’m freaked out about what Alessia told me before I fell asleep

and now my fears are manifesting in my dreams.

My heart continued to pound. Although Griffin and I were probably hundreds of miles apart by this

point, the thought of him still managed to put me on edge.

“Passengers, please make sure you’re seated with your seatbelts on. We’re beginning our descent,

and we’ll be wheels down at LAX in minus twenty minutes,” the pilot’s voice croaked through the

speakers.

The feedback from the speakers roused Alessia from her own cat nap. Judging from the way she

lazily stretched out, it looked like her dreams had been a lot better than mine.

“are we already there?” she asked me. “They said less than twenty minutes till we get to the

airport,” I said.

want

some solid ground.”

too. Not the paws part, of course

response, Alessia looked at me, her smile vanishing. “Well, since we’re almost

to fess up.”

“Fess up? About what?”

could feel a shift

of who I was sitting next to:

member of her own pack to rule it. She

time to tell me about my

wanted. Did you forget about your own deal, Clarke? Geez, I suck at this

for why I wouldn’t make a good

that I was trying to withhold information or act

what I had agreed to divulge for that

said, “Sorry, I just woke up like you. My brain is still a little fuzzy. I’ll tell you who it

it wasn’t hard to

not just for her.

times,” I told her, “You

my clothes

it was there. It

be someone

the point, Clark,” she rolled her eyes,

throat out. So, jus

said, eyeing her white knuckles, “In that case, I’m

to my sister.”

silence. Alessia paused completely, like she was frozen in time. “Your

repeated, raising an eyebrow.

I explained, “I

together too — she sat next to me on the plane and next to

ense why we’d smel

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she was trying

the day with Griffin, you were still able to smell her scent on

she was

Alessia. It was the

He’s part of

turned eighteen. Had

course it makes sense. You

out sooner. I

Our pack is in Washington, they

now you can

Blacktooth territory. And you’re sure

“You’re not trying to screw me over, right?” There was a dangerous edge

she spoke that last part. I guess

shy about

on what you’ve told me, it’s got to

in close

to be the sister.

to my

mated to my sister for about a day,