The Alpha King's Human Mate by HC Dolores

Chapter 33 Chapter 33

“Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions yet our roots remain the

same.”

Unknown

As I stood inside the crowded LAX terminal, I couldn’t remember

the last time I’d felt so lost.

After Alessia and I had gotten off the plane, our goodbye was brief. She’d promised me that she’d

tell my family I was safe and wished me happy hunting — I’d rolled my eyes at that — and then

left. Apparently, one of her pack members was already waiting outside the terminal for her, so she

had no reason to wait around.

And now I was alone in a state I hadn’t been in for nearly seven years ~ not since I’d lived with my

mother. (7

When Alessia had first told me her pack lived in California, it had felt like fate. It was the state my

mom lived in, the state I’d lived the first eleven years of my life in. However, now that I was

actually sitting on a bench inside the LAX airport, the whole thing felt ridiculous.

Thadn’t seen my mom in seven years ~ I hadn’t even spoken on the phone with her since she’d

dropped me off at my dad’s house all those years ago. She’d made it clear she wasn’t interested in

any contact with me, so why did I think she’d take me in now?

She knows about the existence of werewolves, so maybe she’d be willing

to hear me out if I told her I was trying to escape from one. *

There was a small part of me that didn’t even want to contact my mom at all. If she could go so long

without even a phone call, did she really deserve to be in my life now?

But whatever pride or ego she had wounded with so many years of no contact would have to wait. I

was desperate. I didn’t have a lot of

options.

had no current address or phone number for my

a kid, we spent most of our time on the move – living in

“uncle.” There was

that she might not live in California anymore but I doubted it. My mom

life, and she had

bet Uncle Steve knows where

for my mom, I knew my best shot at getting

my mom or finding her whereabouts

him as a

touch throughout the years. Living

kid, but Steve was one

staying at the week or what

while

he’d run off

contact for my mom too. You could

place or that she had even paid her cellphone bill, but

Steve to know

houses so she could

in case I needed something. I’d

time I was

mom are

things changed ~ maybe

I was even born. He was

Steve would

none of them were

I skimmed through the list of

Pretty sure dad almost had a heart attack but I think

Lily had written.

should talk about what this

that his

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