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

a mirror,

make-up could pretty up their faces, but nothing could be done for

was like

look so

would just cut her face up so I 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

listen to her ugly thoughts all the time, only when she was

away from me to leave the range of

about my wolf had

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 was

this up,"Elly

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

Alpha Evan.

all over everyone's minds since yesterday, overwhelming me like a tidal

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

his long lost nephew, but people knew better than to

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

was Dark

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

be

every pack he conquered because he was searching for a suitable candidate to be his

Elly's and

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

each one

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 to chase

also likely the cause of the

in full sisterly support of each other, what each one thought was that she was far more beautiful, so there was

was hard not

secret power, trying not to

had ambitions of ruling the

the Moon Goddess, something to increase

life or death

took place in

up in the front courtyard of the estate as ordered while I watched on with the rest of the

dragged until evening, and

Nothing, of course.

was that Alpha Evan was searching for as

when he passed them by, not even bothering to inhale their scent

Alpha to join him