Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 1

“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 r***d 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.

uld read minds, either. I had kept that secret all my life.

it possible for me to read

ail, anytime something even slightly inconvenient happened, it was because of the no-good half-sister C

ed alone. I could endure it, at least until I escaped from this place, the estate of the Dark Moon pack.

d 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! i***t. She had better not leave one strand out of place or I’ll have them kick her ribs in to teach her a

houghts. 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 w

eir faces, but nothing could be done for the rotten personalities beneath. Swimming in their thoughts was like trying to wade through a swamp.

ivilege to serve me personally!)

I didn’t have to listen to her ugly thoughts all the time, only when she was close enough. As soon as she was far enough away from me to leave

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?

s up,” Elly said aloud

ng every minor pack neighboring him and making the Scarlet pack a complete juggernaut.

ance. All the female werewolves would be inspected and ‘registered,’ whatever that meant. The other 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, his Luna.

’s and Maria’s excitement. How handsome

t was far superior to mere mind-linking.

ich was how I knew that although both girls pretended to be in full sisterly support of each other, what each one thought was that she was far more

the real downside of my secret power, trying not to roll

e whole werewolf world, finding their true mate was no laughing matt

ath matter if someone stepped out of line…

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on was thorough and dragged until evening, and we were all forced to watch, nearly bored to tears. Nothing, of course. No woman was selected for whatever it was that Alpha Evan was searching for as he moved up and down each row. Elly and Maria looked like they were going to burst into tears when he passed them by, not even bothering to inhale their scent as he did with a few others.

who stood by him already. They must have mind-linked with each other just then. Not that I’d know anything about it. Other than my freakish mind-reading ability, I possessed no ability to telepathically communicate, to mind-link. And they were too far for me to eavesdrop with my power, which was unstable when it came to short distances as it was.

voice, and he left no room to wonder about what had just been communicated. He waited until Alpha Kris joined them and asked, “Is this a

es, of

and Maria perke

t the silent Alpha Evan, then seemed to remember something. “Well, there is one girl, but it’s impossible. She’s a half-breed, practically human. Surely she wouldn’t be fit for–“

to me.”

Claudia Da

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o fast. The Scarlet pack werewolves came for me, forced me to stand on the platform in front of everyone. I was still trying to understand how it had come to this when I had been trying so hard to stay out of trouble, and now it had come looking for me. Nothing would happen since Kris was r

t that became the least of m

. This is that same scent. I’ve finally found her.)

What?

years ago?

Was h

ave possibly done wrong to anyone when I was just a child?