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.

God,” she muttered, smiling. “I hate flying. I want to put my feet

some solid ground.”

paws part, of course — but

smile vanishing.

to fess up.”

“Fess up? About what?”

I could feel a shift in the air. The

who I was

pack

me about my mate, Clarke,”

that’s what she wanted. Did you forget about your own deal, Clarke? Geez, I suck at this

wouldn’t make a good q ueen.

act coy, but I’d

what I

“Sorry, I just woke up like you. My brain is still a little

was tense, and it

not just for

I told her, “You

my clothes

faint but it

be someone I

Clark,” she rolled

throat out. So, jus

her white knuckles, “In that case, I’m about 99% sure you’re

to my sister.”

silence. Alessia paused completely, like she

repeated, raising an eyebrow.

I

sat next to me on

ense why we’d smel

if you’re not reading this book

on the complete story. Head over there to dive

she was

Griffin, you were

that she was no longer

had seen before, but never on Alessia. It was the look that my dad

He’s part of the past

she just turned eighteen. Had you gone

“Of course it makes sense. You didn’t

out sooner.

guess. Our pack is in Washington, they live on Blacktooth

now you can

again, “in Blacktooth territory. And you’re sure about this?”

“You’re not trying to screw me over,

spoke that last part. I guess I couldn’t really

about violence, I also

but based on what you’ve told me,

in close contact with

got to be the sister.

that settles it,” I said, “You’re mated to my sister…and I

I’d known Alessia was mated to my sister for about a