The Alpha King's Human Mate by HC Dolores

The Alpha King’s Human Mate

Chapter 86

Chapter 86

“We don’t shout ‘don’t panic’ to anyone who’s in panic!” (+ Toba Beta

Griffin used to think that the emptiness he felt before finding his mate was the worst it could get. All those nights he’d lie

awake in bed, wondering if he’d never meet her, if maybe she’d already died in some horrific way and he hadn’t been

able to protect her…all of that anxiety paled in comparison to what he was feeling now.

The anxiety of the unknown was nothing compared to what it felt like to know that his mate was in real danger. Not

imaginary danger his brain conjured up when he was alone and anxious, but real, palpable danger.

And it was his fault.

She might as well have been taken directly from his arms. They – the traitorous spies working for Alpha Liam ~ had stolen

her right out from under his roof. To think he’d only been a few hallways away the entire time, that he could’ve prevented

this if he hadn’t been too busy playing politics.

You should rip out their throats. All of them, his wolf growled inside of his head. Chapter 86

Since he’d discovered his mate’s disappearance hours ago, his wolf had spent most of the time growling and whimpering

– sometimes both.

“T want to know how the fuck this happened,” Griffin snarled. “I want to know how my mate got kidnapped in a castle

full of people.”

He was standing in a room with his most trusted advisors and the guards who’d been on duty when Clark disappeared. He stood at the head of the table, his claws digging into the wood until it splintered beneath his sharp nails.

The room was dead silent.

None of them dared to meet his gaze. Most of them looked nervous and panicked, whether that was because their

Queen was kidnapped or they were just too afraid to elicit his wrath, he wasn’t sure. He didn’t care. None of it really mattered ~ nothing but finding his mate mattered.

“Isn’t it obvious?”

that broke the silence didn’t belong to any of the guards or the advisors, but to the curly-haired

the corner: Alpha Alessia. Her face was twisted into a frown, and like Griffin, she was still clothed

to

a word when Alessia and Lily Bellevue slipped into the meeting he’d called with his

might’ve forced them out if it had been anyone else, but this was Clark’s sister and sister-in-law.

what was happening to their

they could be

kept talking. “I mean, this was the perfect

she explained, “All of the guards were stationed where the guests were – at the

of the decade, with most of the werewolf world being invited. Planting someone or even a couple of

for Alpha Liam. All his little spy had to do was get her alone and

right – that he hadn’t been able to see the glaring flaw in

he’d been able to

impatience to make her his queen had painted a

him. I’m going to rip Liam’s

from Griffin this time, not his wolf ~ although the beast was

inside his mind.

door to the meeting

one of them, a burly guard, said, “We searched the

in the corner

balcony.”

jacket in his hands, and placed it gently on the table for the rest of the room to take in.

eyes at the fabric. It must’ve been from a guest, but the fact that they’d found it on the same balcony his mate disappeared

couldn’t have been a coincidence. “Wait, let me

way through a couple of advisors and guards, Lily Bellevue didn’t even bother asking

jacket and

voice came out a little harsher than intended. Not

or

with flared nostrils, “I’ve definitely smelt it before.” Alessia crept up behind Lily, keeping a hand

of her

long sniff. “It’s

a moment, pressing her face into the

eyes

the anticipation was practically killing Griffin. He just wanted

and kill.

Lily finally said, opening her eyes and looking at Griffin, “The first night I came here with my siblings, we had dinner with your father. There were other people too here…and this scent was there.