Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 4
I was well within range. His thoughts should have seeped into my mind unbidden. But there was such turmoil in them that I couldn’t tell them apart, and the dark veil that covered all of them didn’t help either. So much… grief, and loss, and hatred. And above all, such anger.
Was he going to attack me? Why were there so many terrible thoughts in his head as I approached? I wanted to flee, but he was a strong Alpha — he could leap and catch me without breaking a sweat. All running away would do was make him even angrier.
But… maybe it wasn’t directed at me after all. Now that I came closer, I could see the gleam of his eyes, and he was looking downward, not at my face.
ed. Was he drunk? The way he had ordered me to come closer had
bably could.
?”
n’t his mate? Maybe this was a test. I steadied myself.
the Moon Goddess pairs mates together. We’re not mates, Alpha.”
”
in the Moon Goddess myself, and maybe he’d guessed as much since I was a hybrid. But one thing was f
ed more questions. Most werewolves found their mates by the time they were eighteen. Evan
arefully. “You look tired.”
elbow and guide him to the massive bed. It took some effort to get him under the covers since he seemed to forget what he was
adn’t been there before. Was he sobering up?
My little maid,” he said, voice guttural. “I
ince this morning.”
saw you. It’s been nine years.”
efore things got hairy.
drunk man shouldn’t possess, startling me. His grip wrapped around my hand, grasping it tight.
“Claudia.
Al
“Don’t,” he insi
child. But even more jarring than how he held my hand was the way he called me by name. He’d remembered it? And he was
Calm down, I thought. He was drunk, and as long as I was careful, I could extricate mysel
de of the bed. The empty half. He couldn’t possibly mean…?
es bored into me, and I swallowed again.
n help me.
***
uldn’t have been able to sleep a wink. But seconds after my head dropped onto the pillow,
thought was that a storm had punched a makeshift skylight through the roof of the dank hut where I used to sleep. That place — it would be with me forever. It had only been a couple of years since Maria and Elly got tired of me not being constantly on hand and forced me to move out of the slave quarters, that musty place.
s was neithe
van’s bed.
f gleaming blue eyes stared at me.
Oh, no.
situation. Me. A half-breed slave. I had just woken up in bed with the Alpha of the Scarlet pack.
k heavens. But I hadn’t washed up and I had just woken to the sight of a man staring a
akfast,” I said, desperate for an excuse to run off,
o take on the chefs’ responsibilities.”
hing you require of me this morning?”
long time. I’m in a good mood.)
For now, he wasn’t going to do anything to hurt me.
d to sleep by my side so I can rest as well as I did last night.”
ried about me.
will be staying by your side a
ool when you were in Dark Moon?”
ur, I could only nod, though uncertainly. “Not regularly, sir, but some days.” I wasn’t even sure if I’d actually qualified for graduation. Not that it mattered. I would never have been allowed to attend.
continue your education.”
cation?
k territory. But this was unbelievable.
ing this because he had the crazy notion that I was some kind of savior.
ght — I prayed he remembered what I was talking about so I wouldn’t have to say it ou
I truly believe you have the wrong person,” I said. “I’m
hy is that?”
he thought rolled through his mind, crystal-clear.
(I know you’re not my mate.)
I paused.
He knew?
se he had said last night?
runk?