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

thought of some muscled man curling his arms around her at night

make her stomach sour

tell anyone that

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

humans

of family expectations and pack alliances resting on

It was a problem

her time was

Alessia & Lily

have a feeling there’s another ulterior motive at

has just turned twenty-five and he’s still mateless. I believe this

the prince to search for his

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

nothing

admit it, but it was a

pool of eligible Alpha children of age was probably pretty small, but Alphas tended to mate with other Alphas.

being amongst the group, however scarce, was

one place? Well, that was just convenient — it saved

the world to find his

gushed. “Are you excited? What if

Mila. “Plus, he’s the strongest

sex…”

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

the prince?” She shot back. “It’s being Queen that matters.” She played with a

“Besides, I’m not

Chapter – Alessia

the world. I doubt I’ll be the lucky girl.”

dejected sigh, as if she

find your mate there,” Mila pointed out, “There’s

wouldn’t be

Oh, right

about, it was also the gaggle of future Alphas who’d spend

metaphorical dick

was

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

sixteen

swallowed and looked

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

need to attend this

to why,

to worry about these things — not

carry the pressure of pack alliances or

– Alessia

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

home without some testosterone-driven

she could say the

your mate will look like,