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.

Evan was seconds away from beheading

house as a quasi-slave to my half-sisters, there were traditional packs who would rather see me

Pack one of them, they

father was close enough at the base of the platform that

can be useful

Oh.

to have a minimum of faith in my

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

who

was no sign of skepticism in his voice,

he stared at me instead of replying to his

me?) he wondered to

range of most of Dark Moon or Scarlet, but anyone looking on who had overheard what the Alpha had said to me was also frozen in dumb

Alpha Evan was wrong.

ago, whatever that meant, but

They were an order.

I argued, if I disobeyed, what would happen to me? The rumors of Alpha Evan's ruthlessness were

was a reason packs simply surrendered without a fight when he announced he was

Like Dark Moon.

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

"I understand."

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

thought: (She has a nice

admiring -- assessing.I took no comfort in it as I turned and left the

I went down the steps and moved back into the gathered Dark Moon crowd? Elly and Maria's thoughts struck me first,