The Alpha King's Human Mate by HC Dolores

The Alpha King’s Human Mate

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“You could fill three lifetimes with the things people say about you when you’re not there.”

Stewart Stafford

Aria woke with a jolt to someone stroking her hair. For half-a-second, her sleep-addled brain thought she was back in

Liam’s domain, stuck in her bunk bed or his bedroom

Her anxiety spiked — but only for a moment until she realized she wasn’t with Liam anymore, but her mate. The

comforting scent enveloping her was Sebastian as was the soft touch to her hair

“Are you okay? I didn’t mean to startle you.” He must’ve realized she was awake because his hand stilled in her hair, and

Aria had to bite back a whimper. She liked his touch

She shifted to look at him, rubbing the sleepiness of her eyes. “No, it’s alright. I didn’t mean to actually fall asleep, but I

guess I was more tired than I thought from the trip.”

Sebastian, who was sitting on the edge of the bed and still dressed in the same clothes, gave her a cheeky grin. “Oh, I

have no complaints

You did fall asleep in my bed, after all.”

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What? Aria shot up like a wire. “Wait, this is your room?”

She glanced at her surroundings, and berated herself for not realizing it before she’d passed out. The room was all dark,

neutral colors but the personal touches were undeniably Sebastian: several family photos of him with both his sisters, a

photo of his parents, and a couple of unwashed t-shirts scattered on the floor

As if that wasn’t enough confirmation, the room reeked of him. Not in an unpleasant way — more like a wanting-to-rollaround-in-his-sheetsforever kind of way

She flushed. She hadn’t meant to end up in his bedroom, but after rushing out of Clark’s room, she’d just followed the

comforting scent to…here

Sebastian must’ve seen the red decorating her face because he said, “Hey, there’s no need to be embarrassed. Finding

you up here, wrapped in my sheets, was like waking up on Christmas morning. You looked beautiful.”

Her cheeks became redder, and she couldn’t bring herself to look at him as she asked, “Do you think I could have some water? My throat is feeling a little dry.” It wasn’t true, but it was the first thing she could think of to change the subject

“Of course,” Sebastian said, and then he stood up, “There’s still some

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pack members mingling downstairs with my parents, so I’ll get it for you.” He shot her another smile before stepping out

of the room, leaving the door cracked

She waited until his footsteps echoed into the soft noise of voices downstairs before she grabbed the pillow — his pillow — and inhaled deeply

Her eyes fluttered shut

He smelled so good

She could live in these sheets, in this bed

“T can’t believe our future Alpha has a mate now.”

Aria’s eyes popped open at the unfamiliar, tinkling female voice she could hear coming from down the hall. She didn’t

she hadn’t seen anyone on the second floor — but maybe one of the guests had

second female voice joined in, just

think so,

than a future Luna,” the first girl replied, her voice mocking. “You know

– Aria

“What?”

walked out of the bedroom to alert them of her

wanted, but she didn’t. She curled further under the

to say about her

was the first girl’s voice, and she could hear the smirk. “She came from weird traditionalist

Texas, and Sebastian pulled her

“No way! Really?”

she’s all traumatized and shit. That’s why she was

talk to anyone.”

is what Sebastian’s pack thought of her, how they saw

about

second girl’s was syrupy with faux-pity. “He’s been waiting so long

stuck with someone

something tells me he’ll be more of a caregiver and less of a mate,” she sighed, “Oh, well. He’s stuck with her now. Nothing he can do to change it.” That was the last thing they said before they moved on to gossiping about

member of their pack

– Aria &

the covers,

felt like her worst fear come

and meeting Sebastian, Aria had spent many nights, laying awake and agonizing over the

mate, let alone one

girls gossiping in the hallway only proved that

Sebastian takes care of me, makes sure I’m okay, soothes my anxieties, and does all of

what have

is be an ungrateful burden. Those girls are

be my caretaker

way, some part of her wondered if, deep down, he felt

being patient, of constantly

spiral as he

it took me so long. I got

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you can imagine.” He sat down on the edge, sitting the glass on

the glass of water and drank greedily to hide the fact that

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girls’ words circling in her brain, of Sebastian being stuck as her caretaker

life

Her heart pounded furiously

but how long until he began to resent her? Began to

had nothing to

one thing she could offer

thought came, she

so fast that water sloshed over the sides,

Sebastian, and pressed

was almost

lips molded to his like they were meant to, and her entire body tingled

in her

for a moment, and then, he started to

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back

hers, letting her set

and his

when they didn’t, she took one of hers —

and started to trail it

his collarbone and chest until her palm clasped over the bulge in his pants. Just as she began

zipper, he stilled

from

“What are you doing?”

care of you.” The