Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 6

It was challenging blocking out all of the thoughts of the students around me in the first class. I wasn’t used to being in close quarters with so many at once. But since I sat in the front row, everyone in range was focused on the professor’s lecture. Before I knew it, he was dismissing the class, and I gathered up the notebooks and binders the adviser had given me earlier.

The professor watched me as I left. He was the first person I’d met so far who hadn’t internally remarked on how I must be Alpha Evan’s mate at last. For that reason alone, I decided I liked him.

The next course I was scheduled to sit in on wasn’t for another hour. That gave me time to get something at the dining hall, and I brushed my thumb over my student ID as I stood in line.

al points pre-loaded onto it, the

a mistake and that I needed to go back to Dark Moon.

waved me through.

ping me.

e I toppled over in sheer amazement. But no sooner had I sat than someone joined me, pulling out the chair to my left without invitation. Two people, actually, a couple. The young woman beamed at me as she set her own plate down.

ew hybrid girl, right?”

she had decided of her own volition to sit next to a half-breed.

at us favorably. But she was talking nonstop and pulling me into a conversation with her and her friend Leon, gossiping about the Scarlet pack.

ehow, I gathered from her rapid-fire conversation that there were four important families among the Scarlet. The largest of all was the Joseph family — the ones in charge of the business empire with direct ties to several other strong packs. Their support had solidified Alpha Evan becoming the new Alpha some time ago. The other three families were the Neeson, the Glilies, and the L

od.

hat’s got a finger in every pie in entertainment, real estate, everything.”

ate?”

ges to find his mate — and now, for the first time, he’s come back with you.”

rove me back to the manor in the late afternoon and instructed me with a wink to check my room for the ‘care package’ he had put together. I didn’t know what he could possibly mean until one of

e before.

But now…

might never have to go back. I really mig

a princess because he was repaying me for ‘saving’ him. What would he do when he eventually realized the truth? I had already told him he had the wrong person, but would he forgive me even still?

on who had rescued him almost a decade ago.

could dis

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school in a Benz. It had to be used; who would trust me with a new car? But even then, it was too expensive for me to be driving around in. Parking took ages since I went around and around looking for a spot with no cars next to it, just in case. My driving and parking skills needed a lot more practice befo

the heart of the affluent area of the territory, and near the commercial district of the city. In fact, everything was easily accessible from here, even the low-income neighborhoods.

ere divided from the rest, and there were even specific areas where humans and hybrids were allowed to live. It wasn’t only Dark Moon who hated humans, aft

s in there had paired off when the semester began a month ago.

to them and exchanged introductions.

so much, but otherwise, I found it easy to block out her noisy mental chatter and jealousy that I was so closely associated with Alpha Evan.

oerced me (though I was more than willing, to be honest) into having dinner together as well.

the only man hotter than Alpha Evan, even though some people will disagree. I guess it’s half and half. But either way, make sure not to fall for it. He’s such a player. But man, is he hot.”

h other with more half-jokes.

amilies, about bonds — not just mate bonds, either. This sense of friendship and community was what they really wanted, and for the first time, I forgot that I didn’t belong.

e an explicit curfew didn’t mean I was off the hook. By the time I stepped on any invisible toes, it would already be too late.

backpack for the key in the parking lot w

you’re Claudia