Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 10
“Claudia.”
Evan’s voice. But I couldn’t open my eyes. So tired.
“You’re a little white wolf, Claudia,” he said softly.
assiel had found me in my dreams the other night, and now she had even come out into the world. But the thought had only just formed in my sluggish mind when my body twitched, the shifting energy dissipating within it like smoke. Wait,
warmth of my fur faded bit by bit, and the chill of the air came over bare skin.
uman again. And I couldn
cradled me within them. Something wrapped around me. Soft. Warm. But borrowed warmth, li
is chest. Almost hurt. Too tight. Squeezing.
a word. So tired. Too
me away.
***
efore except waking up in Evan’s arms. The bed was so warm that I wanted to stay in it forever though. The plush pillows and the thick covers, it almost felt like fur. So, so warm and comfortable–
Wait.
y. Right? It wasn’t a dream, was
d shif
e here! Are you still…
all a dream after all.
d, and Evan walked in. I pulled the covers up to my chest, startled that he had ent
ad it been? A whole day?
, can you tell me
tupidest, shallowing things, but I was better than that.
t, yesterday…
.”
action than I truly felt. But at least that part was true. I hadn
t? Hybrids usually can’t shift.”
ut it was disappointment I s
e.
to find your mate?” I asked. “You’ll find her eventually no matter what you do anyway. That’s how it happens.”
should get back to resting.”
door in a flash, but I managed to
aken for your mate anymore. It’s making things too difficult for me.”
losed
***
han a few minutes. Breakfast was little better. I had no appetite, and looking at the platters of expensive food only made my stomach churn.
in.
he manor any longer. I left my backpack in the car and found the trail I’d taken yesterday in my shifting daze, but this time fully alert and coherent. I followed it all the way past the university grounds until the sounds of traffic died away, and finally I found the woods agai
doubt. I closed my eyes and focused.
d I ran and ran like I had yesterday, testing my strength.
and never feeling like I had to stop.
to examine myself. I was a white wolf, like Evan had said. But I was tiny, only the size of a natural wolf, not bigger like pure werewolves. If anyone saw me, they would never guess I had a human form.
ith stupid words and insults like I was some i***t who didn’t know how to do anything except ball my fists and flail them around. But at least from that, Cassiel had finally appeared long enough to let me shift. And I had a wolf
terrain and following the streams one after the other, reveling in my new speed and strength.
wolf; he was too large to be a normal wolf of the woods. But I couldn’t mind-link with him at all. That skill came naturally to full werewolves, but it must be a drawback of my hybrid heritage. I couldn’t communicate even in this form, at all.
my shortcomings behind. There was nothing to linger for anyway.
noon class with a few minutes to spare. I was gone in the next minute, running down the trail.
***
him until he was standing right in front of me.
class?” I asked. “
hat was you
realized in a flash what he was talking about. Back in the forest — he had seen me. Him? Ken?
e, yes.”
t.
t.”