The Alpha King's Human Mate by HC Dolores

The Alpha King’s Human Mate

Chapter 72

Chapter 72

“Night is when fear comes to us at its fullest, when we have no way to fight it. It will do everything it can to seep inside

you. Sometimes it may succeed.”

Samantha Shannon

Ivan’s valerian root tea trick seemed to only be a temporary bandaid. It worked for a week, but eventually, the nightmares

returned — even with the tea.

I found myself in the middle of a dark forest surrounded by wolves on all sides. None of them looked at me or reacted to my presence ~ as if I wasn’t even there. They were circled around something, staring ahead with bloodthirsty eyes.

I didn’t think twice about pushing my way through the circle to see what they were staring at, and when I did, I gasped.

Griffin had been pushed to his knees, blood running down his face and his clothes, He was clutching his side too ~ no

doubt another wound. The worst part wasn’t the physical wounds I saw on him though. It was the broken look in his eyes

like he’d already lost the fight.

Standing above him, Alpha Liam looked even more menacing than Ir Chapter 72

emembered from the meeting. His face was painted with a victorious smirk and he loomed over Griffin looking every bit

like the conqueror he was.

J tried to move, to rush to Griffin’s aid, but I found that my feet wouldn’t move. They were planted into the soil.

I could only watch in horror as Alpha Liam smiled and sliced his claws along Griffin’s throat in one fluid movement. Griffin’s eyes rolled back and he slumped forward, clutching and grabbing at his slit throat.

I opened my mouth to scream, but nothing came out. And that’s when I woke up.

The first thing I registered — besides the darkness of the room – was my own heart beating wildly in my chest.

That wasn’t real. That wasn’t real.

tried to picture Griffin’s face alive and happy in my mind, but all I could

floor.

a cold sweat, and the comforter suddenly felt suffocating. I flipped it off

leaning over the side

of the bed.

wasn’t real.

knew that the nightmare was just an illusion, a deep-seated fear

~ that the mate bond did this to force the mated

make it

if it was real. If the mate bond could give me nightmares, why couldn’t it give me visions of the present? Maybe this was the bond’s way of alerting me

ended in some violent,

experienced dreams like this too. It’s not real, and even if it was, you would know. If Griffin really

I’d feel it. There would be no

I

up inside of me, right in the middle of my chest. It was if someone had injected me with

~

the anxiety and the unease and let the warmth roll over me like

What is this?

emotions were too strong and felt too foreign to be mine. Chapter

fuzziness really did

me back to sleep. This time, into

Ivan for our training session the next day, the first

previous conversation we’d had, but Ivan

about the

Ivan asked me with

pick more unhelpful descriptors? What exactly is a ‘fuzzy’

eyes. “Fuzzy as in, like, the anxiety seemed to melt away. I felt fine all of the sudden

Kind of like that buzz you

| just

this came directly after

anxious I’d even begun

I said that, Ivan’s eyes lit up with

happened exactly?” “You opened up the bond.” “I

taught you about this in school? Didn’t you

very good one,” I

pinching the bridge of his nose as he started to talk. “Think of the mate bond like a hallway with two