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.

school days were the gossiping and bad-mouthing of their classmates

front a mirror, they should take a moment

faces, but nothing could be

their thoughts was like trying to

She doesn't deserve to look

have to look at it anymore.She can't even shift! She might as well be human.Just make her a regular slave!

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

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

about my wolf had stung.She was

human form.I wondered sometimes if Cassiel hated me for

this up,"Elly

being involved in this, so 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.

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

Evan, the current Alpha of the Scarlet pack who had deposed and killed

was his long lost nephew, but people

annexing every

was Dark Moon

turned over to Evan to do as he

the female werewolves would be inspected and ‘registered,’

he conquered because he was searching for a suitable candidate to be his mate,

Elly's and Maria's

make a perfect mate

so each

one of them was even his fated mate, and they would find out when they looked into each other's

the cause of the strange mutant power of my mind-reading ability that was far superior to mere

other, what each one thought was that she was far more beautiful,

not

of my secret power, trying not to roll my eyes at

the whole werewolf world,

a gift from the Moon Goddess, something

ceremony today could become a life or death matter if someone stepped out

took place

the estate as ordered while I watched on with the rest of the human

dragged until evening, and we were

Nothing, of course.

selected for whatever it was that Alpha Evan was searching for as he moved up and down each

were going to burst into tears when he passed them by, not even bothering to inhale their scent

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 who stood by