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.

that he didn't despise her 'big heart', but I'm guessing he's thinking that if she hadn't been so nice, maybe she would still be here. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this man knowing

because he found out about us, she was crying because she hurt him and he was

not to kill him, and she would take responsibility for him and ensure he doesn't talk." He

They became close, and she started bringing him around

never threatened by him. He was close to my dad's age, and he always considered her his daughter that he never had. She was happy, so automatically I was happy too.

and sadder, I could see that it was hard for him to relive it all. He was doing a good job keeping it all together, but I

Sophie, I 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

me, and I waited for him to

pretzels that she loved so much. Our stores in the

up, as I thought about the snack that

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 the

and I knew he could break anytime

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. And that's when I knew,

gasped. How could a human kidnap

It was like she disappeared from the face of the earth. I didn't sleep or eat. I was just

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 break, so I always had

feeling that the story was about to get

Alpha house. When we rushed to

to escape before we could catch him. We wondered how

he followed her that day, and that's how he got away that night. The day he took her, he injected

use her blood to try and change himself. Apparently, a lot of years ago he saw a wolf and dedicated

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

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 keeping Nick and

just quiet sniffles here and there as

the time and blame her, but she convinced him that she's an Alpha blood, and any other wolf that he kidnapped would give worse

through what she was going through"

exactly what she was doing," Luka agreed. "She knew he wouldn't stop until he had what he wanted, but he just wouldn't let

life trying to be a wolf?

and said he was gonna try using it on a new-born child. The lunatic

pack somewhere across the world. Ella wouldn't have this, so she told him that if he let

she gave him the baby?"

for her lie. He was happy since the pup would be a full bred Alpha blood,

again and it hurt my heart

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 me tightened and I knew he's about

his 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

the man I'm falling for,

while a group of us went to the location she gave us.

in the woods. It was creepy and had all sorts of things wolf related, then we saw that he grew the poison there too.

injured him enough to get him to talk. Luckily, he wasn't working with

what that freak did to them,

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

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

I apologized for failing her, but she said I

sadder as he reminisced on the last moments with his mate. I never knew I could feel this much pain for another individual. It hurt

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

him to stop the asshole and that's

his head on my chest again and I softly kissed his hair. I used my thumb to caress his hand while