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.

nice, maybe she would still be here. It doesn't take a genius to

he found out about us, she was crying because she

ensure he doesn't talk." He sighed, shaking his head. I held his hand reassuringly and I saw him relax under my

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

never threatened by him. He was close to my dad's age, and he always considered her his daughter that

hard for him to relive it all. He was

I went beside him and cautiously eased myself onto his lap. He caught on and pulled

and laid his head on my chest while

as he relaxed into me, and I waited for him to

into town with him to grab some pretzels that she loved so much. Our stores in the pack doesn't sell them, so she

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

apart, and I couldn't reach her, so I knew she wasn't on

breathing was getting heavier and I knew he could

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

could a human

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

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

had a gut feeling that the story was

loud siren from outside the Alpha house. When

the bastard left her there and gave himself enough time to escape before we could catch him. We wondered how he managed to get in and out without being spotted, but when she finally woke up, it all started

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 dormant, and she couldn't

use her blood to try and change himself. Apparently, a lot of years ago he saw a wolf and dedicated his life to learning about us and he was obsessed with being like us. So when he got the

that was it for him. He started spilling the tears I knew were bound to come soon. I hugged him closer as I

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

they were just quiet sniffles here and there as he hid his face

convinced him that she's an Alpha blood, and any other wolf that he kidnapped would give worse results than her." He continued after

wolves from going through what she was going through" I mumbled in amazement. She really sounded

agreed. "She knew he wouldn't stop until he had what he wanted, but he just wouldn't let her go, no matter

their whole life trying to be a wolf? I mean,

try using it on a new-born child. The lunatic was gonna kidnap a female

his and make a pack somewhere across the world. Ella wouldn't have this, so she told him that if he let her go, she

gave him the baby?" I asked,

the pup would

again and it hurt my heart that

with that poison will kill us slowly if it wasn't flushed out of our system, but she begged us to go stop him before we take her to the pack doctor" His grip on

whereabouts and asked us to stop him before he could steal the female human baby. I didn't want to leave her side, but she made me

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

and others to take her to the pack doctor, while a group of us went to

town 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 had

to get him to talk. Luckily, he wasn't working with anyone and he hadn't kidnapped the child yet. So, I ripped him apart slowly, ensuring to inflict pain

after what

damn cave from inside, ready to tell Ella the good news"

arrived, everyone looked sad. The doctor said he did as much as he could, but the poison had already caused damage to her organs. She was content when I told her that he didn't get a chance to get the child." His arms wrapped around my waist tighter, and I tried my

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 I didn't fail her and that I

last moments with his mate. I never knew I could feel this much pain for another individual.

at me" I urged, holding his face. "You didn't fail her Luka. After everything I've learnt today about Ella, I knew she meant what she said. You hear me? You did not fail her. You did the one thing she wanted done before she left. You did that

him to stop the asshole and that's exactly

his hair. I used my thumb to caress his hand while