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.

of their classmates and even

all the time they spent in front a mirror,

faces, but nothing could be done

thoughts was like trying to wade through a

to look

I don't have to look at it anymore.She can't even shift! She

to listen to her ugly thoughts all the time, only

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

last vicious thought about my wolf

human form.I wondered sometimes

this

in this, so don't get any stupid ideas.But I won't let

Alpha Evan.

had been all over everyone's minds since

current Alpha of the Scarlet pack who had deposed and

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

came, dominating and annexing every minor pack neighboring him and

now, it was Dark Moon pack's turn

this pack would be turned over to

werewolves would be inspected and

every pack he conquered because he

and Maria's

is! they had crowed, and strong and rich! They would make a perfect mate for

each one

other's eyes...I didn't care about that.I didn't know anything about mate

likely the cause of the strange mutant power

support of each other, what each one

was hard not to

my secret power, trying not to roll

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

Moon Goddess, something to

could become a life or death matter if someone stepped

It took place

with the rest of

inspection was thorough and dragged until evening, and we were all forced

Nothing, of course.

was selected for whatever it was that Alpha Evan was searching for as he

burst into tears when he passed them by, not even bothering to inhale their scent as he did with

gestured for my father the Alpha to join him