The Alpha King's Human Mate by HC Dolores

Chapter 54

Chapter 54

“Time flies when you grow fangs and fur.” °) Dianna Hardy

I was not ignorant about claiming bites. Although I had slept through plenty of werewolf education in my life, the lesson

about claiming marks and bites wasn’t one of them. It was a hard lesson to miss, especially when I was used to seeing the

evidence on every mated female wolf I saw.

Claiming bites were just that — bites that represented the claim of a wolf on another. It was standard practice for male wolves to leave them on their female mates, and in cases of same-sex mates, the dominant wolf would leave one on the

submissive wolf. Even learning about it in school, I’d never liked the practice. |)

It had always felt so one-sided to me. Just another way for male wolves to show their mates off like property, even parade

them as such. The female wolf never got to leave her mark on the male wolf, she could only ever wear the mark. |

At school, the female wolves used to gossip about what it would be like to wear their soul mate’s claiming mark. To

them, it was an honor. They didn’ once they’d met their mates and gotten their marks, every mated

just accept the display of possessiveness, they wanted it. And

woman I’d known had bore her bite proudly.

T’d seen the evidence countless times – most notably on Luna Grace. It wasn’t always visible around the house, but

whenever she interacted with pack members, she’d wear shirts or dresses with low collars that left my dad’s mark visible.

You could always the indent of his teeth, the exact spot he’d sunk his canines into her. The mark had obviously scarred

over but it never faded. It always seemed to shine in the light and even more on full moons.

I didn’t understand the werewolf biology that went into claiming bites perfectly. They all looked like bite marks to me,

but to a wolf, it was supposed to smell like your mate, It was irrefutable evidence that you were taken and claimed by

someone else.

So, when Griffin brought up the idea of claiming me, I practically bristled. My brain barely registered the second part of

becoming his Queen. I could freak out about that

claim me?” I gaped at him, “Like with a claiming bite?” He was

could hardly blame him for

was sure that I looked ten

Griffin asked, his eyes

little collar if you’d prefer. Maybe

I cut him off. The picture that my mind

a realistic way that I’d ever want anyone in the castle, even

mark?” Griffin asked. He

to his voice

I didn’t want to

has nothing to do with you specifically…it’s the bite itself. Maybe I’d feel

to have a physical indent of your teeth on

anyway. I suspect everyone

point.

hesitancy in stride, which was a surprise. If

he echoed, shaking his head lightly, “Is that

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spend plenty of time with you. Everyone here knows I’m your mate

where you’re wrong, little fox,” Griffin said, and something primal flashed behind his eyes, “A claiming bite is more than just

a warning system for any wolf who tries to go

ever be able to mark you,

there’s no way I’m letting you roam around these

know that he wasn’t bluffing. Still, I continued to push.

girls at school, who gushed over their claiming bites like they were new jewelry or clothes. And

fang marks in their necks, what about male wolves? What did they have to show for their

mark, no bite they were

hard I tried, the implication didn’t sit well.

shown off and follow orders mindlessly. Regardless of what my destiny might’ve had in store for me,

that wasn’t it. (>)

voice even, “I think there’s something we need

claiming bites, about this mate

“Oh, and what’s that?”

know you have traditions and expectations, but I spent part of my life in the human world,” I

going to be your mindless little housewife that you can store on

getting here or what you’re going

thing