Alpha's Hybrid Cinderella

 "CLAUDIA! Hurry up and get in here!" I knew Elly was going to scream my name long before her shrill voice echoed out of her room and into the hallway where I waited.

This was the daily ritual, every afternoon.

She would call for me, and while she sat at her vanity table, I brushed her long hair like a servant to her satisfaction.

If a stranger saw us, I looked like any common slave of the pack house.

No one would guess she was my half-sister, nor Maria in the other bedroom.It was true.

Our father was Alpha Kris of Dark Moon.

But whereas Elly and Maria were tall and slim with beautiful auburn hair, I was the odd one out with my inexplicably pale skin, shorter stature, and completely black hair.

But it suited us...

since I was only the illegitimate daughter of the Alpha and the human slave he had raped eighteen years ago and impregnated.I was a disgrace, along with my mother who had died giving birth to me.

A disgrace of a hybrid, a half-breed abomination.As I said, no outsider would ever guess I was supposed to be part of the family.And no one would guess I could read minds, either.I had kept that secret all my life.

How was it possible for me to read minds? I didn't know.But I was privy to all of Elly’ s secret thoughts just like now, and without fail, anytime something even slightly inconvenient happened, it was because of the no-good half-sister Claudia, illegitimate daughter of the Alpha, the half- breed.

At least my mother wasn't here to suffer with me.

Me, a hybrid forced to play handmaid to my half-sisters, and her, the human slave who had given birth to me -- our lives would have been hell anyway.

Better that I suffered alone.I could endure it, at least until I escaped from this place, the estate of the Dark Moon pack.

(What a stupid bitch), Elly seethed privately as I brushed her long hair out with gentle strokes of the brush.

( But at least no one can possibly be so stupid they mess up brushing hair! Idiot.She had better not leave one strand out of place or I'll have them kick her ribs in to teach her a lesson.Bitch). I ignored her thoughts.

It was unfortunate that everyone's private musings made it into my head regardless of my will, but I'd long since learned to mask it and pretend nothing was amiss.

Besides, Elly was the boring one.

Her thoughts were always the same, day in and day out, either blaming me for every little thing that happened to her or daydreaming about being the center of attention at school.

Which then turned back to blaming me, since I attended the same high school, and who would want to have a disgusting half-breed hybrid for a sister? I was, in her world, always at the center of her woes.

And she never missed a chance to give me hell for it.

But life was life, and even hell could become trite.

bad-mouthing of their classmates

all the time they spent in front a mirror, they should take a

up their faces, but nothing could be done for the rotten

was like trying to

She doesn't deserve to look so pretty),

don't have to look at it anymore.She can't even shift! She might as well be human.Just make her a regular slave! Why does she get even this privilege to serve me personally!) Nothing new there

listen to her ugly thoughts all the

as she was far enough away from me to leave the range of

her last vicious thought about

Cassiel -- she couldn't take over, and therefore I was trapped in human form.I wondered sometimes if Cassiel hated me for it.Was that why she

this up,"Elly

being involved in this, so don't get any stupid ideas.But I won't let you mess this up for me today, not in front of Alpha

Alpha Evan.

had been all over everyone's minds since yesterday,

pack who had deposed

his long lost nephew, but people knew better than to gossip too

as they came, dominating and annexing every minor pack neighboring him and making the Scarlet

Dark Moon pack's turn

reins of this pack would be turned over to Evan to do as he saw fit, no

the female werewolves would be inspected and

was that Alpha Evan ordered this done with every pack he conquered

and Maria's

and rich! They would make a perfect mate for him, and

so each

would find out when they looked into each other's eyes...I didn't care about that.I didn't know anything about mate bonds, and I'd never felt the urge

the strange mutant power of my mind-reading ability

both girls pretended to be in full sisterly support of each other, what each one thought was that she was far more beautiful, so there was no chance

not

secret power, trying

had ambitions of ruling the whole werewolf world, finding their true mate was no laughing

Moon Goddess,

become a life or death matter if someone stepped out of

It took place in

on with the rest of the human slaves from the side, ready

the inspection was thorough and dragged until evening, and we were all forced to watch, nearly

Nothing, of course.

for whatever it was that Alpha Evan was searching for as he moved up and down each

looked like they were going to burst into tears when he passed them by, not even

Alpha to join him up there, then glanced to his right at the