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.

and bad-mouthing of their classmates and even so-called friends whom they complimented and simpered at

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

faces, but nothing could be done for the rotten personalities

was like trying

deserve to look so pretty),

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

I didn't have to listen to her ugly thoughts all the

was far enough away from me to leave the

last vicious thought about my

one -- Cassiel -- she couldn't take over, and therefore I was trapped in human form.I wondered sometimes if Cassiel hated me

screw this up,"Elly

in this, so don't get any stupid ideas.But I won't let you mess this up for me today,

Alpha Evan.

all over everyone's minds since yesterday, overwhelming

of the Scarlet pack who had deposed and killed his predecessor,

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

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

Dark Moon

ceremony, the reins of this pack would be turned over

werewolves would be inspected and

pack he conquered

and

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

each

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 to chase

which was also likely the cause of the strange mutant power

although 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 the other would

was hard not to

secret power, trying not to roll my eyes at

ruling the whole

a gift from the Moon Goddess, something to increase their power

become a life or death matter if someone stepped out of

place in the

on with the rest of the human slaves from the side, ready to help the ladies back indoors and attend to their needs

and dragged until evening, and

Nothing, of course.

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

them by, not even bothering

father the Alpha to join him