Alpha Luka And His Human Mate

Victoria's pov

"Everything."

He sighed as if gathering his thoughts, while I braced myself for the worst.

"Ella was my mate. She died a year ago" He whispered loud enough for me to hear while my heart broke for him.

I suddenly felt bad for resenting her so much, thinking she was a bad person for leaving her mate, when in reality she was actually dead.

"Luka you don't have to continue if you're not ready. Gosh I'm sorry I pushed it so much, I didn't know. Damn" I rambled out quickly while he just chuckled, shaking his head.

"It's okay Victoria. As I said, it was selfish of me to put you through that."

God what am I gonna do with this man?

"I met her when I was eighteen. I was thrilled and eager, so I took her home and marked her, claiming her as mine" He continued.

"What do you mean by you marked her?" Is that some kind of werewolf thing?

Oh my gosh did he pee on her?!

"A mark is a claim that a male wolf puts on his mate, to show unmated wolves to stay away, also mixing both of our scents" He explained slowly with a nervous look on his face.

"We do it by biting her in a very special spot on her neck" I winced as my hand automatically went to my neck as if I could feel it. "It hurts at first but then it becomes quite pleasurable" He added a little too quickly, as if he's trying to keep me on the positive side.

"So that's what happened to Ashley's neck?" I asked and he nodded.

I processed the new information then urged him to continue the story.

"She was my other half. I felt so complete and happy with her" He smiled and I felt a pang of jealousy run through me.

A very small part of me was actually glad that she's gone, and I felt like a bad person. ’Come on Victoria she's dead for Christ's sake have some remorse!’

"She was quite a character," he chuckled. "She was practically the opposite of you. Shy and collected, quiet and she was never the sassy type. Both your hearts are big the same though" He met my gaze and I frowned.

If she was the opposite of me, then I really had no chance with him. He is in love with her and her personality, so he would never feel the same way about me.

So why did Lincoln say I'm important to him?

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing" I denied quickly, giving him a fake smile. He didn't look convinced but he let it go.

"Anyways, I won't bore you with our love story" Bore me? More like torture me! "So I'll get right to it"

He paused, getting serious again. Why do I have a feeling this is gonna be bad?

"Ella was always into human things, so she would always come here to town and meet people, hang out and even just to get dinner. She was smart though, so she never risked our secret by befriending any of the humans. But one day, someone followed her almost half way into our territory" His jaw clenched and his eyes got dark.

I guess this was the hard part.

"I don't know how, but he already knew about us. So when he met her, he got suspicious about her and that's why he followed her. He somehow managed to mask his scent so she wouldn't detect him, and he saw her shift.

"Right then he made himself known and she was taken off guard by his presence, so she attacked him, knocking him out. She then brought him back to the Alpha house. She was crying so hard because she didn't know what to do. If it was any one of us, we would've killed him on spot given that he obviously had tabs on us. But Ella with her big heart..." He trailed off as he chuckled humorlessly.

hadn't been so nice, maybe she would still be here. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this man knowing about her was

she was crying because she

doesn't talk." He sighed, shaking

trusted. They became close, and she started bringing him around more and more often. She showed

to my dad's age, and he always considered her his daughter that

sadder, I could see that it was hard for him to relive it all. He was doing a good

went beside him and cautiously eased myself onto his lap. He caught on and pulled me the rest

window and laid his head on my chest while I

a 'thank you' as he relaxed into me, and I waited for

loved so much. Our stores in the

up, as I thought about the snack that I hate so much. We

and she wasn't back yet, so I started to get worried. We can't mindlink if we're certain distances apart, and I couldn't reach her, so I knew she wasn't on her way back. I called her and

breathing was getting heavier and I

into town to see if we could find her. When we reached the store that I knew she shopped at, I caught a whiff of her scent and relief flooded me, but we entered the parking lot and her bag that she carried everywhere and the pretzels were laying there as if she dropped them while trying to escape.

a human

find her, but even our best trackers couldn't find her. It was like she disappeared from the face of the earth. I didn't sleep or eat. I was just a mess" He sighed and I held him

would spend days and nights looking for her. I even asked humans if they knew where he lived, but it was useless. I knew she wasn't dead because I didn't feel the mate bond

had a gut feeling that the story was about to get

outside the Alpha house. When

in a white cloth, unconscious. The siren had a timer on it, so the bastard left her there and gave himself enough time to escape before we

used wolfsbane to mask his scent. That's how he followed her that day, and that's how he got away that night. The day he took her, he injected her with it, so it weakened her and made her wolf

lot of years ago he saw a wolf and dedicated his life to learning about us and

knew were bound to come soon. I hugged him closer as I

empty. Kera came out once and saw the seriousness of the situation, so she silently went back inside the employee's lounge, successfully

quiet sniffles here and there as he

convinced him that she's an Alpha blood, and any other wolf that he

was protecting other wolves from going through what she was going through" I mumbled in amazement. She really sounded like a good

he had what he wanted, but he just wouldn't let her go, no matter how much she

Who spends their whole life trying to be a

using it on a

Ella wouldn't have this, so she told him that if he let her go, she would get pregnant and promise

gave him the baby?" I asked,

little. "The idiot was so desperate, that he fell for her lie. He was happy since the pup would be a

it hurt my heart that

wasn't flushed out of our system, but she begged us to

to leave her side, but she made me go. I knew she was withering away, the

if she was the mate of the man I'm falling

others to take her to the pack doctor, while a group of us went to the location she gave us. When we arrived the place reeked of wolfsbane, and that's why we couldn't

in the woods. It was creepy and had all sorts of things wolf related, then we saw that he grew the poison there too. The stench alone could weaken us so we

retaliate. We injured him enough to get him to talk. Luckily, he wasn't working with anyone and he hadn't

any other circumstance I would've cringed, but after what that freak

men to gather his remains and burn the damn cave from inside, ready

was content when I told her that he didn't get a chance to get the child." His arms wrapped around

wonder how she did it. She was basically dying and her mind was on a child that she didn't know. I apologized for failing her, but she said

sadder as he reminisced on the last moments with his mate. I never knew I could feel this much

You did not fail her. You did the one thing she wanted done

to stop the asshole and that's exactly

kissed his hair. I used my thumb to caress his hand while I massaged his scalp softly