Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 9
Today’s dinner was even richer than yesterday’s. The pasta alone was enough to have me rolling out the door, but the clams, oysters, deveined shrimp, and unidentifiable but luxurious garnishing made it all the more unbearable. After years of subsisting on little better than plain sandwiches, my stomach couldn’t handle things like this.
Not that I would ever admit it. The last thing I wanted to do was sound ungrateful. Evan had mistaken my innocent question for being bratty earlier, and if it happened again, I didn’t know if I could bear it.
Besides, being pampered and fed to death was a lot better than being slapped, insulted and threatened day after day.
eady had four glasses.
an alcoholic?
nd the deep pressure in his mind — so mu
, and leaving him to his thoughts would be like watching a man drown and doing nothing about it. Maybe no one else could read minds like I could, but that didn’t
of anything else. “I don’t even know what kind it is.”
er,” he said. “If there’s anything you dislike, tell them, too.”
Every single thing I’ve eaten
when I was still with Dark Moon.
honestly. “It’s more than I’ve ever eaten at on
the only one he had brought back, in all this time. Everyone else…
t want peace for him, and seeing him smile now with a lighter heart put me at peace, too.
***
taking a bath, then prepared to go to sleep in my own bed. Despite his order from the first night to always sleep by him in his bed, he had not yet summoned me, so maybe I was free tonight.
It didn’t take long to understand it wasn’t physical sounds, though. I was hearing Evan’s nightmare from the other room. How he could be in range, I didn’t know, but he wasn’t shouting aloud.
bled out of bed
his dream screamed. So much blood
speck of a conscience could let someone suffer like that.
iled to wake him, I shook it a little.
en.
de all other signs of his distress, and his gaze moved to me. “Did I wake you?”
itted privately, but of course I had no choice but to nod. Than
o I gave him a small embrace.
ardness I felt. “We used to grind it up for anyone who had nightmares and night terrors. It tastes
es it smell as bad as it tastes?”
his mind as he came to. Good. “No. Just has a bitter taste, like coffee.”
other for a few more minutes. But it couldn’t last. When he didn’t order me to get into bed with him, I figured it was safe to dismiss myself.
”
and left his room.
***
ly learned of it because the head maid informed me Evan had left with orders to take care of me. Well, that wasn’t surprising. Alpha duties could take a man out of bed at any time of night.
had fifteen minutes to get to class.
.
k again.”
on her face as she glared at me, prettier than ever with that angry glint in her eyes and all of her vibrant supermodel charm on display for everyon
only make her even more smug.
you’re going after? Who you’re going after?”
ing herself with dog s**t and thinking it makes her look unique and interesting.)
it was, more snarling thoughts. Elly-esque, indeed.
ted in Alpha Evan,” I said fla
find his mate? But of course you don’t know. You’re a half-breed. That’s why you’re such a shameless f*****g whore.”
n the light. Was she about to shift? Was that why her teeth had changed?
Cassiel stirred awake and growled. Her rage poured through me, and my s
el commanded, and I lunged forw
g too far. If I let myself hurt Flicka just
esk. I couldn’t let myself lose control, or else–
landmarks. But the building melted into streets, and the streets melted into grass. My senses were all so sensitive, and yet I had no idea what was happening to me.
rest.
I collapsed on the grass, surrounded by a labyrinth of plants I forgot how to name. And then I slept and slept, dazed and exhausted.
footsteps moved over the grass, approaching