Alpha's Hybrid Cinderella

Then suddenly, another thought...another voice.I guess it is his wolf.

(No.It's not her.She's not our mate).

I can't sense it.Oh, Moon Goddess.I had no idea what was going on but relief filled me at the words.

Yes! Now let me go, I thought.

But instead, Alpha Evan lifted my face, warm fingers under my chin.

Oh, Moon Goddess.

He was huge.He dwarfed me like I was nothing more than a child.

But more than his size, it was the incandescent Joy that flooded his mind that blew me away.

Pure happiness.

My breath caught in my throat, and for a second, I wondered if the secret childhood dream I'd long ago grown out of was about to become true.

Was this a man who would see me in the dark, take me away from this miserable life and from all those who hated and abused me? Was this man going to tell me he had been waiting to meet someone like me all his life and save me from a lifetime of hurt and despair? He lowered his head and put his lips to my ear.

"You," he said, "are going to my personal maid from now on."

Maid? I was already a maid in every definition of the word for Dark Moon.

If Alpha Evan wanted a maid -- or slave, more likely -- then I wasn't changing stations considerably.

But why me? Why had he wasted time ordering his soldiers to comb the ranks of Dark Moon to look for a maid, slave, whatever it was he really wanted? And why had he specifically chosen me when he could have someone far more sophisticated? Or more importantly, someone who wasn't a mixed-breed disgrace? All eyes were on me.

probably thought Alpha Evan was

house as a quasi-slave to my half-sisters, there

one of them,

should call father was close enough at the base of the platform that I

half-breed can be useful after all), he

Oh.

have a minimum of

for me a moment ago was speaking loudly and insistently with Alpha Evan through mind-link, the distinctive ringing of it different

the person who saved your life?)

no sign of skepticism in his voice, only burning

stared at me instead

me?) he

of most of Dark Moon or Scarlet, but anyone looking on who had

Alpha Evan was wrong.

someone who had saved him nine years ago, whatever that meant, but it wasn't me.And yet...the words he had

They were an order.

to me? The rumors of Alpha Evan's ruthlessness were

simply surrendered without a fight when he announced he was about to

Like Dark Moon.

"...Yes, Alpha," I whispered.

"I understand."

hear, wasn't it? But he remained silent even then, only nodding at me

(She has a

no comfort in it as I turned and left the platform, making sure to keep my

I not shaking as I went down the steps and moved back into the gathered Dark Moon crowd? Elly