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 and even so-called friends whom they complimented and simpered

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

up their faces, but nothing could be done for the

was like

deserve to look so pretty),

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 as well be human.Just make her a regular slave! Why does she get

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

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

last vicious thought about my wolf had stung.She

-- 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 was so quiet sometimes?

this up,"Elly said

don't get any stupid ideas.But I won't let you mess this up for

Alpha Evan.

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

the current Alpha of the Scarlet pack

been that Evan was his long lost nephew, but

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

now, it was Dark Moon

reins of this pack would be turned over

be inspected and ‘registered,’

rumor was that Alpha Evan ordered this done with every pack he conquered because he was searching for a suitable candidate to be his mate,

Elly's and Maria's

strong and rich! They would make a perfect

so each one

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

I was a half-breed, which was also likely the cause of the strange mutant power of my

each one thought

was hard not

downside of my secret power, trying

ambitions of ruling the whole werewolf world, finding their true mate

the Moon Goddess, something to increase their

ceremony today could become a life or

place

rest of the human slaves

and we were all forced to watch, nearly bored to

Nothing, of course.

whatever it was that Alpha Evan was searching for

passed them by, not even bothering to inhale their scent as he did with a few

to the front to stand on the platform, he gestured for my father the Alpha to join him up there, then glanced to his right at the brown- haired man