The Alpha King's Human Mate by HC Dolores

The Alpha King’s Human Mate

Bonus Chapter – Aria & Sebastian (10) Bonus Chapter – Aria & Sebastian (10)

“At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been.”

Warsan Shire

Aria had always thought the most beautiful place in the world was Liam’s pack and home. However, from the moment

she stepped into Sebastian’s pack, she realized just how wrong she’d been

Liam’s pack was a bleak comparison to the vibrant beauty of Sebastian’s home. After a short plane ride, where she’d

somehow managed to fall asleep on Sebastian’s shoulder, a car and a driver had been waiting for them at the airport.

The driver had stared at her curiously, but he didn’t ask who she was – and a single look from Sebastian, and the driver

didn’t look at her for the rest of the ride

Sebastian made small talk with her most of the way, pointing out cool landmarks or places he’d been to. His voice filled

the empty space of the car, and Aria found it soothing

A welcome distraction from the fact that she was, once again, leaving

behind everything she’d known to go somewhere new

Except this time, it was no one’s choice but her own

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Her parents weren’t forcing her, Liam wasn’t ordering her to leave. She was in the driver’s seat — metaphorically, of

course

The ride itself had been long, and Aria couldn’t help but notice how different Washington looked than Texas, where her

family lived

In Texas, everything was flat and spread out with a dry heat that never seemed to go away, even in the dead of winter

Washington was refreshing

For once, she didn’t have the constant reminder of the sun beating down on her. Here, it was tucked behind a heavy layer

of clouds and thick trees. And as they drove, civilization became scarcer, the roads got narrower, and the trees got larger

Eventually, the driver turned onto a dirt road cloaked by large pine trees, and Aria caught sight of what she assumed to

be a few pack members on patrol. They were in the tree line, in their wolf forms, and one of them nodded at their car as

they passed through

They drove further in, the gravel of the road crunching under the tires of their SUV, until the trees cleared and –

There it was

Sebastian’s pack

It was much bigger than she’d expected, bigger than her parents’ pack

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and even Liam’s

she could see as well as more commercial buildings:

a building that looked like a school in

the road or the sidewalk, mothers

crossed the street, teenagers gathered

couldn’t

staring at her, raised

she could hear bits and pieces of their conversations —

child what candy they wanted from

“The people…” she started

pack didn’t have people?” Sebastian asked,

not that,” she said, “It’s just…everyone seems

know he was looking at her like she was a

the rain

didn’t change the truth of what

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parents or Liam, nobody had ever seemed truly happy or

their packs, but especially on the women. How to dress, how to

she

people were, content to

depressing thoughts before her mood took a nosedive for the rest of the day. This

new and exciting,

mind, she grabbed Sebastian’s hand and forced the biggest smile she could. “Your home is lovely,” she

“Where to first?”

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to realize it wasn’t something she wanted to dwell on. So, he replied, “Well,

meet my

“Your parents?” She echoed

they know you’re coming,” he said, and he must’ve read the panic on her face because he was quick to add,

and I promise they’re excited to meet you. My mom’s

mate since the day I

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hard for Aria to believe that Sebastian’s parents would truly

he seemed genuine

“Really?” She asked

her hand, “My mom is just going to be

sisters living in other places

that the car turned onto a private drive, even

house they arrived in was large, probably the largest house she’d seen so far. It

the Alpha,

the pack

them, the first thing he’d said the entire

and then gestured for Aria to follow him out. She took his hand without

up the drive, she

stopped in his

down to her plain cotton pajamas, the same clothes she’d left the castle in. “I’m

for meeting

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part was that she didn’t have anything to change into.

and left

won’t mind. If anything,

you.”

continued to twist in knots as they came closer to the door. She inched closer to her mate as

and – “WELCOME