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

around her at

make her stomach sour

tell anyone that — especially

and what she liked long ago. Being gay

humans

for a werewolf with the weight of family expectations and pack

It was a problem

her time

– Alessia &

at play. The King has asked

son has just turned twenty-five

prince

She could

meant nothing good for

it

Alpha children of age was probably pretty small, but Alphas tended to mate with

of his son’s mate being amongst the group, however scarce,

place? Well, that was just convenient — it saved the Prince the trouble of traveling

world to find

God, Lily,” one of her friends, Mila, gushed.

gorgeous,” Camille sighed from besides Mila. “Plus, he’s the strongest werewolf in

sex…”

growing pale, smoothed her features into the carefree smirk she’d mastered years

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

I’m not the

Chapter – Alessia & Lily

There’s going to be girls from all over the

as if she

the prince, you’ll probably find your mate

wouldn’t be surprised if one of them is

Oh, right

just the prince that Lily had to worry about, it

metaphorical dick measuring

thing she wanted was to

was a gleam in his eyes, the

sixteen

and

the room, Clark was engaged in conversation with one of the elders. She looked white

she’d need to

why,

like she had to worry about these things —

the pressure of

– Alessia

she did with all the moping she did, but she got off easy. She got to spend a

and come home without some testosterone-driven

wasn’t sure she

you think your mate will look like, Lily?”