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 belly with babies did

make her stomach sour

tell anyone

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

humans

the weight of family expectations and pack alliances resting

It was a problem

her time

Alessia &

there’s another ulterior motive at play. The King has

twenty-five and he’s still mateless. I

for the prince

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

nothing good for

admit it, but it was a good play

Alpha children of age was probably pretty small,

his son’s mate being amongst

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

world

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

Mila. “Plus, he’s the

sex…”

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

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

not the

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all over the world. I doubt I’ll be the

sigh, as if she really

find your mate

there. I wouldn’t be surprised if one of them is your

Oh, right

Lily had to worry about, it

a metaphorical

was to be mated to one

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

sixteen

swallowed and looked

was engaged in conversation with one of the elders.

revelation that she’d need to attend

to why, Lily

to worry about

carry the pressure of pack

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with all the moping she did, but she got

without some testosterone-driven

she could say the

you think your mate