The Alpha King's Human Mate
very romantic to talk about in a movie or
slept t
lly doze off, I
ey were large, with long, nimble fingers that could've belonged to a
e tattoo that covered his left forearm. It sort of looked like a b
alarm woke me before I
la
my alarm wasn't enough, I ha
off, it's been beeping
way to start my
s even less of a morning person than I was, and everyone in the house knew it. We'd all fac
until I hit the snooze button. I rubbed my face a few times before peeking
loud?" Lily snapped, "I could hear that thing a
ve done any good. "Sorry, Lil," I yawned, "I'm a heavy
hley early by the lockers today, so if you're not downstairs in twenty
ly would take the Jeep and leave me to walk to school. Her and I shared a Jeep, although she used it more often than not. The girl collected
choice was my favorite well-worn jeans, a blue tanktop, and my favorite cotton zip-up hoodie. I didn't bothe
s my mom: dark brown eyes and long, frizzy red hair that I could never manage to completely tame. In fact, it was more than ju
we were identical. When I showed up to live with him, my dad had made
ment I saw my dad for the
, although she never say we
as "going away for awhile," it really meant that she had met a new guy and they were going to run off to god-knows-where and get high together. Even at
ther friend of my mom's. He had looked shocked to see her. His whole fac
hile my mom and dad talked in hushed voices in the other room. They were in t
as on the verge of tears. This time, I was the one who got pulled aside. He explained to me that he was my dad, and I'd be
as r
and I still hadn'
d my dad and Grace had been th
or. I tried not to think about my mom or that night
night – not at me, but at my mom. She had never told him about me, so he had no idea I existed until that night. He told me several ti
was a couple of times, but she had always deflected. She told me that he wasn't ar
ly different world. I later learned from Sebastian that I was t
with her. He'd already come clean to Grace about the encounter years before I ended up on their door
nder of the fact that Grace and dad's relationship wasn't perfec
kinds of things to me
ible, but there were still times when I'd catch her l
ep breath, and pu
y, huh, Clark? Just rehash the
– I'm literally le
he stairs two at a time. Lily was positioned at the front do
the door, "I literally haven't seen her all weekend. If I'm going to be gone nex
my tardiness as I climbed into the