The Alpha King's Human Mate by HC Dolores

Chapter 49 “It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.” |

Lawrence Durrell

By the time that Griffin arrived at the suite to pick me up, decked out in a dark blue shirt and dress pants, I tried to

swallow down my jealousy. This was supposed to be a fresh start for us, and I didn’t want to start it with conflict.

Especially with something that I knew wasn’t actually his fault but my own irrational feelings. Whatever Griffin had done

in the past was his business, not mine. “)

Not that he was considerate when he grilled me about my past sexual experiences.

It took a few deep breaths to shove the thought from my mind, but eventually, I was able to plaster a smile on my face

and look excited to see him.

“You look gorgeous, little fox,” he said, dark eyes roving over me. There was a hungry look in his eyes, like he wanted to

eat me alive.

“as do you,” I replied. He did look good; I couldn’t deny that. The blue of his shirt matched my dress, and for a moment, I wondered if Mary’s opinion about the blue dress hadn’t been planned. Griffin matching me couldn’t have been a

coincidence.

Griffin didn’t outwardly acknowledge my praise but I could tell it pleased him by the way his posture straightened and

his face relaxed.

God, is it that easy for me to read him? Is it just because of the mate bond that it feels like I can tell what he’s thinking or

because I’ve spent so much time in confined spaces with him?

“Come, little fox,” he said, “I’ve had one of the dining rooms prepared for us. I don’t suppose you’re hungry?”

At the mention of food, my stomach grumbled and Griffin smirked. “Well, that answers my question.”

It took almost all of my self-control not to bite back that being drugged hadn’t exactly given me time to eat.

start. Remember, Clark? You’re trying to accept the

instead, I just said, “Food

silence and I tried not to

this place sooner or later, but

it to the dining room,

at the castle to know that most, if not all of them, were

out for me and I smiled. This

Griffin sitting across from me, he was beside me. Close enough to touch. Close enough that I could feel his

door to the room open, two young girls carrying serving

as stunningly beautiful as Mary had been. Big, doe eyes, shiny hair, and

ever given these girls a “night of attention,” to

enough to catch

soft and tinkly, “The chef has prepared chicken pot pie as

in front of us, revealing

the castle is used to preparing,” Griffin said,

more filling

me to take a bite. “Well,

kind of girl.”

over at Griffin, my smile immediately dropped. One of the girls who’d brought our food was still leaning

big eyes looking up at him. Her uniform wasn’t indecent by any means, but the

together definitely

you need anything else, Your Majesty?” she asked,

really doing this in front of me right now? I know he’s the king but I’m literally right here and she’s still

catch his attention.

Griffin could even reply, I couldn’t stop myself from answering for him. “No,

told her. I tried to keep the venom out of my voice, but

done a

tone was enough to get her to back off, straightening up and

and I noticed that her cheeks flushed, “Just call if you need

girl, scampered back into the kitchen and I let out

me down again. So much so for leaving the past in the

was clear that being mated wasn’t going to

the chicken pot pie will help me feel a little less grouchy. “What was that?” Griffin

into my first bite and swallowed it down before I

“What was that?”

said. His eyes were narrowed but his tone was teasing, The