The Alpha’s Human Mate

Ellie opened her eyes when she felt her back on the soft bed. She looked around the room; she was so happy that she was back home alive.

“Alex. I’m so sorry. Please forgive me.” She cried, looking at the man sitting beside her; she knew that she would have to tell him everything tomorrow, starting from the dream she had.

She tried to get up from bed, but she felt pain in her sprained ankle. Ah!

“Just rest back.” He was angry that she went out late in the night without informing him, but when he saw the tears on her face, he couldn’t say a thing. He massaged her sprained ankle with an ointment.

“We’ll talk when it’s dawn.” He said with a sigh. He was about to walk out of the room, before Ellie stopped him. Please. Ca… can you stay? She stuttered. She was scared she might have another bad dream, or that she wouldn’t sleep alone because of the trauma of wolves that almost killed her twice.

Alex was surprised; he wanted to leave her room right away because he did not know what was happening to him. He was feeling so weak from inside.

He looked at her and sighed before he laid on the bed beside her. He could not even look at her face; he just laid quietly on the bed.

“Your arm is bleeding.” She touched his arm and said with worry on her face. That was when Alex looked at her. He also touched his arm and smiled weakly at her. “It’s just a scratch.”

Ellie wanted to ask him if he was in pain because of the sweat forming on his forehead, but she just decided to leave it. She was tired and just wanted to sleep; she moved closer to him and put her head closer to his arm before sleeping off.

If it was the previous Alex, He would have been so happy that he wouldn’t stop himself from pulling her closer, but the man just laid on the bed with his eyes wide open. His eyeballs had changed to pale yellow; he was feeling so weak that he kept struggling to stay by her side without waking her up.

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She woke up the next morning, feeling so tired and relieved from her sprained ankle. She rose from her bed and ran her hands through her dishevelled hair. She sat on the bed, looking deep into the thin air.

A few minutes later, she remembered that she had asked Alex to stay with her. “Ellie! How can you be so shameless? Now he’ll think I was trying to get close to him.” She screamed, pulling her hair.

“Well. I should thank him for saving me.” She said before going out of her room to look for him. She was happy Alex found her and saved her on time. She didn’t want to think about what could have happened if Alex hadn’t come on time.

She went to the dining room in the hope of seeing him having his morning coffee, but she was surprised when she saw the empty room. “Isn’t it still early?” She said to herself.

She went to the kitchen to ask the butler, who was still cooking breakfast for her. “Good morning, Mr. Arnold.”

“Good morning, my lady.” Mr. Arnold replied.

Has Alex come out this morning for his coffee? Ellie asked.

“Mr. Warren left the house early this morning.” She heard the man say,

She went back to her room to take a bath. She had gone down to the dining room without bathing to see him before he would leave for work, but she was disappointed when she heard that he had gone to work.

She had her breakfast after bathing and went back to bed again. She kept checking the time occasionally. “Are you that impatient, Ellie?” She said to herself.

No matter how she tried to stop thinking about Alex, she just found herself falling back. Maybe because she felt guilty about leaving the house without telling him and almost got killed because of that.

Finally, it was evening. Her dinner was already ready, but she sat at the dining table, waiting for him. She waited for about an hour, but she did not see him. She tried his number, but it was switched off.

When she couldn’t take it any longer, she went outside to ask Shawn. “Did Alex call you? I’ve been trying his number, but it’s not going through.”

“He’s still in the office, ma’am. He is stuck in a meeting,” Shawn replied.

Meeting? Isn’t it too late for a meeting? She whispered to herself. I’ll wait for him then.

No. Shawn suddenly burst out. “He might not come home tonight, so I think you should go to bed.”

Ellie did not say anything; she just stared at him in silence. She was suspecting that something was going on because of how Shawn was talking. “How can he not come home because of a meeting? Is he angry at me?” She thought.

Ellie went back into the house, had her dinner, and went back to her room. Maybe he’s just busy.

She went into the bathroom to clear her head. She thought maybe a cold shower would get him off her mind.

She wrapped herself in a towel and went to the bathroom. She took her toothbrush and brushed her teeth before spitting it out into the sink.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

Suddenly, the brush on her hand dropped to the ground. She looked up at the mirror in front of her. Shaking in fear, she staggered backward. “No… my eyes.” She stuttered, touching her face with her shaky hands.

Her eyeballs had changed to green, and the water dripping from the tap in the sink suddenly became louder in her ears.

She cried and screamed, touching her face and rubbing her eyes as if to change them back. But nothing changed. Her green eyeballs did not change back. She was so scared, thinking she would die soon.

She poured water on her face and used soap to scrub her face, until it finally changed back to its original color.

She kept looking at herself through the mirror, her heart beating so fast.