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 Maria's school days were the gossiping and bad-mouthing of their classmates and even so-called friends whom they complimented and simpered at to their

front a mirror, they should take a moment to

up their faces, but nothing could be

in their thoughts was like

deserve to look so pretty), Elly continued to

just a fucking slave.Trash! Disgusting trash! I wish someone would just cut her face up so I don't have to look at it anymore.She can't even shift! She might

have to listen to her ugly

was far enough away from me to leave the range of my ability, I

last vicious thought about my wolf had stung.She was

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

this up,"Elly

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,

current Alpha of the Scarlet pack who had deposed and killed his

been that Evan was his long lost nephew, but people knew better than to

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

was Dark Moon pack's turn

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

werewolves would be inspected and ‘registered,’

this done with every pack he conquered because he was searching for a suitable candidate to be his mate, his

Elly's and

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

each one

other's eyes...I didn't care about that.I didn't know anything about mate bonds, and I'd never felt the urge

cause of the strange mutant power of my

other, what each one thought was that she was far more beautiful, so there was no chance the

not to

real downside of my secret power, trying

had ambitions of ruling the whole werewolf world, finding

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

become a life or death matter if someone stepped

took place in

female werewolves lined up in the front courtyard of the estate as ordered while I watched on with the rest of the human slaves from the side, ready to help

until evening, and we were all forced to

Nothing, of course.

Alpha Evan was searching for as he moved up

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

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