《Alpha's Hybrid Cinderella》


 Chapter 1: The Half-breed Hybrid

    Chapter 1: The Half-breed Hybrid


    "CLAUDIA! Hurry up and get in here!" I knew Elly was going to scream my name long before her shrill


    voice echoed out of her room and into the hallway where I waited.


    This was the daily ritual, every afternoon.


    She would call for me, and while she sat at her vanity table, I brushed her long hair like a servant to her


    satisfaction.


    If a stranger saw us, I looked like anymon ve of the pack house.


    No one would guess she was my half-sister, nor Maria in the other bedroom.It was true.


    Our father was Alpha Kris of Dark Moon.


    But whereas Elly and Maria were tall and slim with beautiful auburn hair, I was the odd one out with my


    inexplicably pale skin, shorter stature, andpletely ck hair.


    But it suited us...


    since I was only the illegitimate daughter of the Alpha and the human ve he had raped eighteen


    years ago and impregnated.I was a disgrace, along with my mother who had died giving birth to me.


    A disgrace of a hybrid, a half-breed abomination.As I said, no outsider would ever guess I was


    supposed to be part of the family.And no one would guess I could read minds, either.I had kept that


    secret all my life.


    How was it possible for me to read minds? I didn''t know.But I was privy to all of Elly¡¯ s secret thoughts


    just like now, and without fail, anytime something even slightly inconvenient happened, it was because


    of the no-good half-sister udia, illegitimate daughter of the Alpha, the half- breed.


    At least my mother wasn''t here to suffer with me.


    Me, a hybrid forced to y handmaid to my half-sisters, and her, the human ve who had given birth


    to me -- our lives would have been hell anyway.


    Better that I suffered alone.I could endure it, at least until I escaped from this ce, the estate of the


    Dark Moon pack.


    (What a stupid bitch), Elly seethed privately as I brushed her long hair out with gentle strokes of the


    brush.


    ( But at least no one can possibly be so stupid they mess up brushing hair! Idiot.She had better not


    leave one strand out of ce or I''ll have them kick her ribs in to teach her a lesson.Bitch). I ignored her


    thoughts.


    It was unfortunate that everyone''s private musings made it into my head regardless of my will, but I''d


    long since learned to mask it and pretend nothing was amiss.


    Besides, Elly was the boring one.


    Her thoughts were always the same, day in and day out, either ming me for every little thing that


    happened to her or daydreaming about being the center of attention at school.


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    Which then turned back to ming me, since I attended the same high school, and who would want to


    have a disgusting half-breed hybrid for a sister? I was, in her world, always at the center of her woes.


    And she never missed a chance to give me hell for it.


    But life was life, and even hell could be trite.


    The highlight of Elly''s and Maria''s school days were the gossiping and bad-mouthing of their


    ssmates and even so-called friends whom theyplimented and simpered at to their faces.


    For all the time they spent in front a mirror, they should take a moment to really self-reflect.


    Their make-up could pretty up their faces, but nothing could be done for the rotten personalities


    beneath.


    Swimming in their thoughts was like trying to wade through a swamp.


    (Ugh! She doesn''t deserve to look so pretty), Elly continued to seethe.


    (She''s just a fucking ve.Trash! Disgusting trash! I wish someone would just cut her face up so I don''t


    have to look at it anymore.She can''t even shift! She might as well be human.Just make her a regr


    ve! Why does she get even this privilege to serve me personally!) Nothing new there either.


    At least I didn''t have to listen to her ugly thoughts all the time, only when she was close enough.


    As soon as she was far enough away from me to leave the range of my ability, I was free.


    ..Actually, herst vicious thought about my wolf had stung.She was right.


    While I had one -- Cassiel -- she couldn''t take over, and therefore I was trapped in human form.I


    wondered sometimes if Cassiel hated me for it.Was that why she was so quiet sometimes?


    "Don''t screw this up,"Elly said aloud.


    "You''re not important enough to deserve being involved in this, so don''t get any stupid ideas.But I won''t


    let you mess this up for me today, not in front of Alpha Evan."


    Alpha Evan.


    His name had been all over everyone''s minds since yesterday, overwhelming me like a tidal wave.


    Yes, Aloha Evan, the current Alpha of the Scarlet pack who had deposed and killed his predecessor,


    Alpha Adrain.


    Rumor had been that Evan was his long lost nephew, but people knew better than to gossip too loudly


    about that.


    Alpha Evan was as ruthless as they came, dominating and annexing every minor pack neighboring him


    and making the Scarlet pack aplete juggernaut.


    And now, it was Dark Moon pack''s turn today.


    In ceremony, the reins of this pack would be turned over to Evan to do as he saw fit, no resistance.


    All the female werewolves would be inspected and ¡®registered,¡¯ whatever that meant.


    The other rumor was that Alpha Evan ordered this done with every pack he conquered because he was


    searching for a suitable candidate to be his mate, his Luna.


    Hence, Elly''s and Maria''s excitement.


    How handsome he is! they had crowed, and strong and rich! They would make a perfect mate for him,


    and he would definitely choose one of them.


    Or so each one thought.


    Maybe one of them was even his fated mate, and they would find out when they looked into each


    other''s eyes...I didn''t care about that.I didn''t know anything about mate bonds, and I''d never felt the


    urge to chase it.


    Probably because I was a half-breed, which was also likely the cause of the strange mutant power of


    my mind-reading ability that was far superior to mere mind-linking.


    Which was how I knew that although both girls pretended to be in full sisterly support of each other,


    what each one thought was that she was far more beautiful, so there was no chance the other would


    be Luna, ever.


    It was hard not tough sometimes.


    That was the real downside of my secret power, trying not to roll my eyes at the ridiculousness.


    But to an Alpha like Evan who had ambitions of ruling the whole werewolf world, finding their true mate


    was noughing matter.


    It was a gift from the Moon Goddess, something to increase their power andplete them.


    This ceremony today could be a life or death matter if someone stepped out of line...


    KKK It took ce in the afternoon.


    All the female werewolves lined up in the front courtyard of the estate as ordered while I watched on


    with the rest of the human ves from the side, ready to help thedies back indoors and attend to


    their needs once this was over.


    But the inspection was thorough and dragged until evening, and we were all forced to watch, nearly


    bored to tears.


    Nothing, of course.


    No woman was selected for whatever it was that Alpha Evan was searching for as he moved up and


    down each row.


    Elly and Maria looked like they were going to burst into tears when he passed them by, not even


    bothering to inhale their scent as he did with a few others.


    When he returned to the front to stand on the tform, he gestured for my father the Alpha to join him


    up there, then nced to his right at the brown- haired man who stood by him already.


    They must have mind-linked with each other just then.


    Not that I''d know anything about it.


    Other than my freakish mind-reading ability, I possessed no ability to telepathicallymunicate, to


    mind-link.


    And they were too far for me to eavesdrop with my power, which was unstable when it came to short


    distances as it was.


    But the man -- perhaps the Scarlet pack''s Beta? -- possessed a booming voice, and he left no room to


    wonder about what had just beenmunicated.


    He waited until Alpha Kris joined them and asked, "Is this all? Every single female werewolf in your


    pack."


    "Yes, of course.Do you perhaps need to see my two daughters again?"


    Elly and Maria perked, but the perhaps-Beta pushed on.


    "Yourst chance.If any women have been excluded, we''ll find out, and you won''t survive the


    consequences."


    "My Alpha, of course not --" Kris began to plead as he turned to look at the silent Alpha Evan, then


    seemed to remember something.


    "Well, there is one girl, but it''s impossible.She''s a half-breed, practically human.Surely she wouldn''t be


    fit for--"


    "Her name, werewolf!"


    The man snapped, forcing Kris¡¯s attention back to himself.


    "Give it to me."


    "It''s udia Dale."


    And then the man turned and called my name.


    It happened so fast.


    The Scarlet pack werewolves came for me, forced me to stand on the tform in front of everyone.


    I was still trying to understand how it hade to this when I had been trying so hard to stay out of


    trouble, and now it hade looking for me.


    Nothing would happen since Kris was right, I was just a lowly half-breed, but Elly and Maria would take


    it out on me with vicious hatredter for the sheer perceived insolence of obeying the order to present


    myself.


    But that became the least of my concerns when Alpha Evan stood in front of me...


    and leaned in, taking in my scent with visible relish.


    (it''s her}, he thought, and it seeped into my mind uninvited.


    (It''s her The girl from nine years ago.This is that same scent.I''ve finally found her)


    What? Nine years ago? Was he insane? I would have been eight years old, what could I have possibly


    done wrong to anyone when I was just a child?

 Chapter 2: His Personal Maid

    Chapter 2: His Personal Maid


    Then suddenly, another thought...another voice.I guess it is his wolf.


    (No.It''s not her.She''s not our mate).


    I can''t sense it.Oh, Moon Goddess.I had no idea what was going on but relief filled me at the words.


    Yes! Now let me go, I thought.


    But instead, Alpha Evan lifted my face, warm fingers under my chin.


    Oh, Moon Goddess.


    He was huge.He dwarfed me like I was nothing more than a child.


    But more than his size, it was the incandescent Joy that flooded his mind that blew me away.


    Pure happiness.


    My breath caught in my throat, and for a second, I wondered if the secret childhood dream I''d long ago


    grown out of was about to be true.


    Was this a man who would see me in the dark, take me away from this miserable life and from all those


    who hated and abused me? Was this man going to tell me he had been waiting to meet someone like


    me all his life and save me from a lifetime of hurt and despair? He lowered his head and put his lips to


    my ear.


    "You," he said, "are going to my personal maid from now on."


    Maid? I was already a maid in every definition of the word for Dark Moon.


    If Alpha Evan wanted a maid -- or ve, more likely -- then I wasn''t changing stations considerably.


    But why me? Why had he wasted time ordering his soldiers tob the ranks of Dark Moon to look for


    a maid, ve, whatever it was he really wanted? And why had he specifically chosen me when he


    could have someone far more sophisticated? Or more importantly, someone who wasn''t a mixed-breed


    disgrace? All eyes were on me.


    They probably thought Alpha Evan was seconds away from beheading me.


    Although my presence was at least suffered at the Dark Moon pack house as a quasi-ve to my half-


    sisters, there were traditional packs who would rather see me dead.


    Was Scarlet Pack one of them, they were probably wondering.


    The man I should call father was close enough at the base of the tform that I could hear his


    thoughts.


    ( Looks like this half-breed can be useful after all), he mused.


    Oh.


    How nice of him to have a minimum of faith in my value.


    Unlike him, however, the soldier that had called for me a moment ago was speaking loudly and


    insistently with Alpha Evan through mind-link, the distinctive ringing of it different from simple thoughts.


    (ls this the person who saved your life?) he asked.


    There was no sign of skepticism in his voice, only burning urgency.


    (Evan!) But Alpha Evan remained silent as he stared at me instead of replying to his subordinate.


    (Why isn''t she answering me?) he wondered to himself.


    But how could I? How could this be happening? I wasn''t in range of most of Dark Moon or Scarlet, but


    anyone looking on who had overheard what the Alpha had said to me was also frozen in dumb shock.


    Alpha Evan was wrong.


    He was looking for someone who had saved him nine years ago, whatever that meant, but it wasn''t


    me.And yet...the words he had said to me were no invitation or request.


    They were an order.


    If I argued, if I disobeyed, what would happen to me? The rumors of Alpha Evan''s ruthlessness were


    no exaggeration.


    There was a reason packs simply surrendered without a fight when he announced he was about to


    take one over.


    Like Dark Moon.


    "...Yes, Alpha," I whispered.


    "I understand."


    That was what he wanted to hear, wasn''t it? But he remained silent even then, only nodding at me to


    leave.


    No, a stray thought: (She has a nice voice.)


    A singlepliment, but not kind or admiring -- assessing.I took nofort in it as I turned and left the


    tform, making sure to keep my expression neutral.


    How was I not shaking as I went down the steps and moved back into the gathered Dark Moon crowd?


    Elly and Maria''s thoughts struck me first, coated thick with vicious envy.


    What the hell is that, Elly seethed.


    (Why does Alpha Evan want to take her? She''s trash!) And then came the other thoughts as I passed


    between the other Dark Moon pack members.


    ( "What did she do?)


    (Why did he call her up there?)


    (She''s practically a ve.Why wouldn''t he just kill her? Half-breeds...)


    (I must not have heard right.Did he say he wanted her to be his maid?")


    I didn¡¯t have answers to those questions either no matter how I wanted them.All I could do for now was


    obey.I remained in my bedroom with my single duffel bag half-full of clothing and belongings.


    That was all I possessed; it had been no difficulty to fit them all.If anything, the most ufortable


    thing was being allowed to remain idle in here for this long at all.


    Around this time, I would normally be cleaning my half-sisters'' bathrooms.


    ..I was leaving.I was really leaving.


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    I''d dreamed of breaking free of Dark Moon for so long, but never in my wildest dreams would I have


    thought it would happen like this.


    Not that I would miss it either way.


    The pack house had never felt like home, and Alpha Kris, Elly, and Maria had always made it clear they


    were my masters, not family.I didn''t even have any friends to say goodbye to.


    When I was small, I used to sneak off to y with the children of the human ves, but Elly had put a


    stop to that long ago.


    Even back then when we were only children, she took delight in my misery.


    Forbidding me from ever leaving the pack house except for school, locking me in my cramped bedroom


    whenever important guests came by, even turning the human ves against me over the years simply


    became my everyday.


    But I was leaving it all atst.I prayed I would never have toe back.

 Chapter 3: Just me and Alpha Evan.

    Chapter 3: Just me and Alpha Evan.


    "Miss udia? I''m Peelle.A pleasure to meet you again."


    It was the subordinate from before, the higher-ranking one who had called me up onto the tform.


    There were three other Scarlet pack werewolves behind him who watched me with curious eyes, but


    none of them gave me disgusted res even though they could doubtless sense my mixed-breed


    heritage.


    They stood at attention in the hallway, allowing me to leave my bedroom.


    Were they saving their scorn forter?


    (She''s pretty) , Peelle thought as he offered his hand to take my bag, and I smiled.I could sense no


    hidden hostility from his thoughts, and the kindness was enough to lower my guard.


    "Hello, Peelle," I said.


    "It''s a pleasure."


    But if I''d hoped for friendlypany, I was to be disappointed.


    There was no conversation as they hustled me out of the Dark Moon pack house with no farewells, no


    conversation as someone drove us all to Scarlet pack territory and Alpha Evan''s estate, no


    conversation as I was summarily towed into the luxurious manor.


    The high ceilings, the beautiful architecture, the sparkling fountains and gardens all took my breath


    away.


    Even the dozens of staff hurrying around were dressed in immacte uniforms that looked more


    expensive that half the things in Elly''s and Maria''s closets.I didn''t have a chance to absorb this new


    world.


    They rushed me through the halls and into a private dining room right away, and I sat stunned in my


    chair for several minutes after the double doors closed.


    What was all of this? Wasn''t I supposed to be a maid? Surely there were maid quarters I was meant to


    ce my things in.I should be learning how to start my cleaning duties.


    But there was food on the table, far more than I could ever finish.


    Maybe I was meant to wait for others to join me, but what if this was the only chance I had to eat? What


    if they realized they''d made a mistake and pulled me away? I had to take advantage of this while I


    could.I stuffed myself as much as possible, but with how little I''d always been given to eat at the pack


    house, I hardly finished one te before I had to give up.


    The richness of the meat in particr made my stomach ache...but it was so delicious.I''d never had


    anything even a tenth as good in my entire life.


    When the dining room doors opened again, two women appeared in staff uniform and approached as I


    stood.


    The older one in the front looked me over with a scrutinizing eye, as if I were an item on disy.


    "We have a lot to do, but the base is good," she said.


    "We''ll take her to the beauty parlor."


    "Beauty -- parlor?" I stammered.


    "Yes, that''s correct."


    Despite her brief answer, the thoughts swirling around in her head were far more hurried.


    (Hm...Alpha Evan will prefer it that way, with the hair done up, I think.We need to put her in decent


    clothes, those rags are outrageous.If only he had brought back women before so I could know his


    taste, but this is the first time he''s taken an interest in any.We''ll just have to make do, I suppose.) If I


    weren''t so off-bnce, I would haveughed.


    They thought I was his lover! Or certainly something other than an unfortunate maid.


    But...she was right about my clothes.They were rags.


    A wave of mortification swept over me -- even the lowliestborers here were dressed far better than I


    was, but these were the most presentable clothes I possessed.


    "We have a lot of work to do," the woman repeated.


    "Come this way, please."


    They had called it a parlor, but it was an entire wing attached to the manor that would have made Elly


    and Maria weep with its grandness.


    Marble baths, perfumeries, whole rooms full of clothes that Dark Moon could never afford.


    And I was being pampered in the middle of it all.


    The scent of roses, jasmine, freesia, and a dozen other faint aromas ghosted around me as half a


    dozen women scrubbed me clean and fitted me in various fabrics.


    They even bathed me despite my mortified protests, but at least thepliments in their thoughts put


    my self-consciousness to rest.


    (Her skin is so smooth.So easy to clean.) She doesn''t have a strong body but it''s still a pleasant shape.


    On the small side, but she has a pretty face.


    That makes up for it, I think.


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    Maybe it was vain to be so happy, but all my life in Dark Moon, no one had ever had aplimenting


    thought about me.


    It might be an invasion of privacy to be able to read these women''s thoughts, but I couldn''t help it


    anyway.I might as well ept it.It got me through the arduous grooming and cosmetics and even the


    massage.I cringed at the sensation of others¡¯ hands all over me, but I gritted my teeth and bore it.I


    eventually fell asleep on the massaging table.I knew it only because I began dreaming.


    Grass...blue sky.Clouds above.


    Something about this ce was so familiar, but the wolf lying on the grass stole my attention.


    "Cassiel!" I eximed.


    "You came back!"


    I hadn''t felt her presence in so long...but before she could reply, I was pulled out of the dream and out


    of my sleep.


    "It''s time, Miss udia.Please follow me."


    They showed me to the master suite several floors up, the band of women in uniform filing one after the


    other.


    They were so formal, so sophisticated.


    I was so out of ce among them no matter what beautiful silks they draped me in, even this delicate


    sleepwear.


    Alpha Evan would be sorely disappointed when he figured that out.


    But there was no putting it off.


    The lead woman bowed me into the suite, escorting me through the beautiful double doors in silence.


    And there, in the center of the room on an armchair, Alpha Evan waited like a king.


    The room wasrge and just as magnificent as the rest of the manor, but it was...dark.


    The only light came from the crackling firece, and the shadows hid his face.


    There was no hiding that Alpha stature, though.


    The woman backed away, still bowing, and the doors closed behind me.


    Now it was just me, and Alpha Evan.He observed me for a moment, and I smelled alcohol in the air.


    Had he been drinking? And...what was that other scent? Metallic...blood? I shivered.


    "Come here."


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