Page 22 of The Alpha King's Mate

Chapter 10

Sorin

I stood and carefully eyed each warrior of my pack. Loyal, strong, family. The emergency meeting had been called for this afternoon.

“Many of you may know that I have found my Queen. Aliana, of the Silvermere pack,” I said, watching the shock, happiness and amusement move through my closest circle.

“She hasn’t taken too kindly to my—past dalliances.”

Murmuring broke out, and they all looked at one another.

Remember that time you had four women in one sitting? Rev asked.

I glared at him as he leaned against the pillar. Too far away for me to claw his face off.

I didn’t say it out loud, he grumbled.

“You will relay the message to the rest of the pack: no one mentions sensitive topics from the past that may upset my Luna.”

Talon raised his hand.“What about that time you—”

I grabbed the glass off my desk and threw it at him.

He raised his arm. It bounced off and shattered across the marble tiles.

“This is no laughing matter,” I growled as Talon brushed stray shards of glass from his clothing.“The future of our pack hinges on Aliana.”

The crowd grew sombre, and I moved on to the security details for the mating ceremony.

Talon raised his hand again.

“What?” I snapped.

“Would you like me to escort her family to the ceremony? I felt a familial bond with them,” he mused, rubbing his jaw.

“Was that before or after you bit his foot off?” Jax mumbled, then quietly chuckled.

“He’s got a point. The father isn’t as handy as he used to be,” Rev added.

“I will let you know whether they are to be invited,” I said, already wondering what she would decide.

As for shielding her from my past—if she looked at it from a logical point of view, all that experience would now benefit her.

DO NOT SAY THAT TO OUR MATE, Malakh roared, so loudly that I winced.

He was so uptight these days.

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I waited like a thief in the night before creeping into my own bedroom. Ember was far too biddable to be sent back to serve Aliana her meals. Which meant I brought her lunch and dinner, and fed her myself.

She ate well, but I got the impression she didn’t enjoy being locked in. Without the collar, she could breach the compound’s perimeter. That was not a chance I was willing to take.

No. I needed to wait until the mating ceremony was complete. Until we were bound, so neither of us could refute our lifetime commitment to one another.

Plus I liked her being surrounded by my scent.

I was a military tactician. My members came to me with all kinds of social and financial problems at our bi-weekly surgeries. I protected the Bloodborne pack and others with an iron fist.