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.

maybe she would still be here. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this man knowing about her was the cause

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

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

and she started bringing him around more and

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

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

about Sophie, I went beside him and cautiously eased myself onto his lap. He caught on

leaned my back against the glass window and laid his head on my chest while I ran

as he relaxed into me, and I

much. Our stores in the

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

couple hours passed 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 man's cell numerous times and there

was getting heavier and I

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. And that's when I knew, he

could a

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

he lived, but it was useless. I knew she wasn't dead because I didn't feel the mate

gut feeling that the story was about to get

siren from outside the Alpha house. When we rushed to see what

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

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

years ago he saw a wolf

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

and saw the seriousness of the situation, so she

just quiet sniffles here and there as he hid his face in

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

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

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

life trying to be a wolf? I mean,

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

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

the

no" He clarified, laughing a little. "The idiot was so desperate, that he fell for her lie. He was happy since the pup would be a full bred Alpha blood, and that's when he brought her back, making her swear not to tell us

and it hurt my heart that

us slowly if it wasn't flushed out of our system, but she begged us to go stop him before we

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 go. I knew she was withering away, the idiot knew so much

of the man

to the location she gave us. When we arrived the place reeked of wolfsbane, and that's why we couldn't track

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

some books in the old messed up place. Some of us were already shifted so we attacked him before he could retaliate. We injured him enough 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

after what that freak did to them, I would've done the

remains and burn the damn cave from inside, ready to

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

 apologized for failing her, but she said I didn't fail her and that I was her hero. But I knew she only said that so I wouldn't feel

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

I knew she meant what she said. You hear me? You did not fail her. You did the one thing she wanted done before

stop the

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