The Alpha King's Human Mate by HC Dolores

he Alpha King’s Human Mate

Bonus Chapter – Aria & Sebastian (1) Chapter 1 – Aria & Sebastian

“a good woman follows tradition.”

Lebo Grand

Warning: this chapter includes themes of sexism as well as grooming of a minor.

Aria Thomas had grown up her entire life learning how to be a good ‘woman, but it wasn’t until the age of twelve that

she learned what a bad woman was. She could still remember the way that Lucy Warner, who was only two years older,

cried and screamed as they did it.

On the weekends, Lucy liked to sneak away to a local bookstore, where she’d meet her human boyfriend, Bryan. Aria

didn’t know anything about Bryan – really, she didn’t even know he existed – until it happened.

Aria’s father, the Alpha of their pack, called for a mandatory pack meeting. That was rare. Most of the time, Alpha

Thomas preferred to keep pack business where it belonged: behind closed doors with his most trusted advisors and

warriors. Aria sometimes heard their loud, booming voices coming from his home office, although she never listened in.

Aria couldn’t shake the pit in her stomach the day her father called the Bonus Chapter – Aria & Sebastian (1)

mandatory meeting. She stayed tucked under her mother’s arm the entire time, Luna Thomas’ hands shaking as they

clutched her.

Lucy looked rather confused as they led her out in front of everyone, and she kept looking back at her parents with

confusion. Most people looked confused ~ until they brought out Bryan.

He was scrawny, even for a teenager, and he couldn’t even hold himself up when a pair of pack warriors threw him at

Lucy’s feet. Her eyes had immediately widened with fear.

Although she hadn’t shifted or gotten use of her full abilities yet, Aria could smell the fresh blood that tainted the air.

“You have grown up learning the ways of our pack, just like everyone else here,” Alpha Thomas had boomed. “And yet,

you chose to break one of our cardinal rules ~ having relations with a human.”

Gasps rippled through the pack, and Aria watched as those confused looks turned to disappointment. Lucy looked

horrified.

“What do you have to say for yourself?” Alpha Thomas said, crossing

his burly arms across his chest. The hard look in his eyes made Aria’s stomach turn. She’d never seen that hard look

directed at her, but he’d

given it to her mother from time to time. Lucy was shaking like a leaf, her brown eyes glistening with tears.

“alpha,” Lucy said, and Aria could see her bottom lip wobbling from Bonus Chapter – Aria & Sebastian (1)

several feet away. “I didn’t mean to break your rules, it was just -”

“But you did,” he cut her off, “You not only disrespected your pack, but your future mate as well. You sullied yourself with

a human of all things.”

apologies in between her cries.

as Bryan already was, his death was quick. His

father.

of it. Nobody told her that she had to look, but

body in a puddle of tears, her father finally sidled

with cool eyes.

What I did to

already been sitting on the tip of her tongue, ready

never have been with

who wasn’t her mate,” her father added harshly, “You can

is supposed to

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a bad

Lucy ~ a bad woman. ‘The world was a dangerous place, and

her. If she was a bad woman, her mate

would be a good woman. She’d make sure of it. When Aria was sixteen, she met Alpha Liam for

come back from the nursery, where she always spent her afternoons, to find him

didn’t need to use her supernatural senses to know

potato casserole onto

Her father boomed, gesturing her over. He looked nervous, but Aria wasn’t sure

to ever be nervous. Still, she took hesitant

my daughter, Aria,” her

handsome too, with brown eyes, brown hair, and

before she averted her gaze. If he was dining with

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from blooming across her

“Yes, sir”

father, and she didn’t miss the flash of disappointment on

mate of this

only I’d

can address me as Alpha Liam,” the man

“I didn’t realize you were

Liam’s handsome face cracked into a crooked smile. “An

made sure

these days,”

good woman these days,” Alpha Liam said,

kind of backwards thinking I’d like to

traditionalists.”

glanced at Aria. “Go help your mother in the

nodded and scurried away without

her back on them, she could hardly suppress the excitement. Her father was proud of her ~ he thought she was turning into a good woman and introduced her

he’d said.

didn’t leave her face for the rest of

the next few weeks, Alpha Liam continued to return for regular dinners at their house. He mostly

up their plates, his eyes would slide over her in a

blushing.

gotten lucky enough to be the mate of a man

after another dinner with Alpha Liam, she hummed

Aria startled, nearly dropping

tomato red. He leaned up against the

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on his face.

said. “I didn’t realize you were still

had to handle some last-minute pack business,”

well. Guess that makes you my host. “I suppose so,” she said,

something to drink?”

need to do alll that,” he waved her off before raising an eyebrow. “You

wasn’t red already, it was now. “Oh, I don’t

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