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

arms around her at night or filling her

make her stomach sour

could never tell anyone that —

who and what she liked long ago. Being gay wasn’t a revolutionary concept,

humans

for a werewolf with the weight of family expectations and pack alliances resting

It was a problem

time was

Chapter – Alessia

a feeling there’s another ulterior motive at play.

twenty-five and he’s still

for the prince to

Lily hardly listened. She could already read between the lines and

nothing good

didn’t like to admit it, but it

eligible Alpha children of age was probably pretty small, but Alphas tended

mate being amongst

them all in one place? Well, that was just convenient —

the world to find his

Mila, gushed. “Are

sighed from besides Mila. “Plus, he’s the

sex…”

could feel her face growing pale, smoothed her

prince?” She shot back. “It’s being Queen that matters.” She played with a coil of her blonde hair

I’m not the

– Alessia &

be girls from all over the world. I doubt I’ll be the lucky girl.” She

dejected sigh, as if she

not mated to the prince, you’ll probably find your mate there,” Mila pointed out, “There’s

wouldn’t be surprised if

Oh, right

had to worry about, it was also the gaggle of

a metaphorical dick measuring

was to

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

sixteen

and

of the elders.

that she’d need to attend

to why,

like she had to worry

the pressure of pack alliances or

Alessia & Lily

the moping she did, but she got

come home without some testosterone-driven Alpha riding

wasn’t sure she could say

or not, what do you think your mate will look