Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 75
Peelle and Osborn were tearing up the house long before they could even walk properly. Blessed with overpoweringly strong werewolf genes thanks to their father, they could slightly shift their fingertips to sharp clawed points, and they decorated the walls, floor, and furniture with their artistic masterpieces anytime we so much as blinked.
This was unsustainable. At this rate, we might as well just put all repairs on hold until they were old enough to learn they shouldn’t draw castles and dragons into expensive wood and leather. We had already stopped trying to patch up the dresser as it was. On either side of it, there were about twenty tangled pictures clawed into the wood, just like the two previous dressers that had been there before.
I hoped they would turn their artist talents to paper or another, less expensive medium soon…
apartment for three more months before the lease is up. If we lose the security deposit because Laila decides to tear up the walls, I’m going to have to put her in a cage or something.”
the armchair. “She’s got your temper. She’s definitely going to bite her way out.”
skance down at her little girl, who made a sharp sound and tried to gnaw on her mother’s thumb. “Yeah, okay. That’s fair. She’s going to be a han
wth compared to humans — and compared to whatever I was.
ia?”
our mind. Is it Evan? Did you argue or something?”
my mother? What happened to her that she ended up where she did? And…” I swallowed hard. “I keep thinking — she must have been so scared. I had Evan, and you, and Leon, and Ken… B
child. With you.”
to meet.
be enough for both of us? In death, could she rest in peace knowing that her suffering had ended with me?
rivate investigators. Start looking for her. Not, you know, where she was buried, but her life before.”
d not just them. If there really are other elves in hiding…”
elf too, because of me.
at journey for the future. Evan had promised he would unite the continent and abolish all s*****y. I believed him, more than enough to wait patiently. But that would take years, and it wasn’t only my heritage I was sacrificing. It was our children’s. Peelle, Osborn, both of them had history somewhere we didn’t know. Was it right for me to put it off, maybe indefinitely. By the time s*****y was abolished everywhere, and exposing humans and possible elf havens was no longer dan
had all been captured too, just like Kris had obtained my mother as a slave. They could be slav
d at each other and at me, then at Raf and Laila. Surprisingly, Laila talked back. The thr
might be the future they’ve been wishing for all along.”
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ns, and he had insisted I go with not only him, but also a chauffeur, bodyguards — an entire entourage, or rather a small army. It was impossi
en packs were only just now beginning to learn to trust each other again. Rumors were already spreading that Evan had changed from warmongering conqueror to a calmer, more peaceful man, someone who joined werewolves together through mutual advantage rather than with soldiers and invasions.
eep going. For the sake of everyone who h
any questions I had if I had glaring werewolves looming over my shoulder. Instead, we
t.”
right.”
ion. He’ll stick with us.”
nning.
he answers I’d sought since I was a little girl.