The Alpha King's Human Mate by HC Dolores

The Alpha King’s Human Mate

Bonus Chapter – Alessia & Lily (2)

Bonus Chapter – Alessia & Lily (2)

“The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is

trying to make you be someone else.”

EE Cummings

From the time she could talk, there were a few things Lily Bellevue

knew for certain

One: she was a werewolf

Two: her father was the Alpha of one of the largest packs in the Pacific

northwest

Three: one day, she’d grow up to have a mate

Four: the greatest gift she could ever give her father, and her pack, was to be mated to a strong Alpha. Someone that

could forge a new alliance

with her pack, and make them stronger

That was her purpose

Her brother would grow up to be a powerful leader, and she’d grow up to marry one. She’d felt the pressure her whole

life, but it got extensively worse the day she turned sixteen and shifted for the first

time

Bonus Chapter – Alessia & Lily (2)

That’s when the clock really started

When she didn’t mate with any of the warriors in their pack, her father was ecstatic. It meant she was even more likely to

end up with another pack’s Alpha or soon-to-be Alpha

All Lily felt was dread

She wanted to feel the same excitement her friends did whenever they gushed over their future mates. She wanted to be

thrilled about the possibility that she might end up as some powerful, swoon-worthy Alpha’s Luna, but..

She didn’t

her at

make her stomach sour

anyone that

to terms with who and what she liked long ago. Being

humans

the weight of family expectations and pack alliances resting

It was a problem

time

Chapter – Alessia

have a feeling there’s another ulterior motive at play. The

son has just turned twenty-five

opportunity for the prince to search for his

droned on, but Lily hardly listened. She could already read between the lines and figure out

meant nothing good for

but it was

probably pretty small, but Alphas tended to mate with other

amongst the group,

just convenient

the world to find

one of her friends, Mila, gushed. “Are you excited?

from besides Mila. “Plus, he’s the strongest werewolf

sex…”

her face growing pale, smoothed her features into

back. “It’s being Queen that matters.” She played with a coil of

“Besides, I’m not the

Alessia &

in attendance. There’s going to be girls from all over the world. I doubt

sigh, as if she

if you’re not mated to the prince, you’ll probably find your mate there,” Mila

be surprised if one of them is your

Oh, right

wasn’t just the prince that Lily had to worry about, it was also the gaggle of future Alphas who’d spend

metaphorical

was to be

eye across the room. There was a gleam in his eyes, the same gleam he’d had

sixteen

swallowed and

with one of the elders. She looked

need to

to why,

like she had to worry about these things —

didn’t carry the pressure of

– Alessia & Lily

she did. You’d think she did with all the moping she did, but she got off easy. She got

and come home without some testosterone-driven Alpha riding her

she could

think your mate will look like,