Rejected By Wolves, Claimed By The Vampire King

ed to move and couldn't. My wrists were soft. My neck was not burning. The silver collar was gone. I bolted upright, gasping. I was not in the basement. I was not in the alley. I was in a bed bigg

me. He just looked at me, close. "Your mother was not a low vampire, Lin Yue. Your mother was Princess Lin Xiya. The only daughter of the last Vampire Emperor. My fiancée." The world stopped. "What?" "Twenty years ago, the Vampire Empire and the Wolf Pack had a truce meeting. Your mother was there. She was beautiful, powerful, and she believed we could have peace. Marcus Wolf was there too. Young, ambitious. He told her he loved her. He tricked her. He got her pregnant and then when she told him, he locked her up because he was ashamed that the future Alpha had a vampire child. He told everyone she ran away." My hands were shaking. "You're lying..." "Am I?" He reached out, and this time I let him. His cold finger gently lifted my chin. "Look at your hair. Silver-white. Only the royal bloodline has it. Look at your eyes when you are angry - royal red. And that pendant - that is the Imperial Jade of the Vampire Clan. Only a princess can wear it and make it glow. It glowed for you in the basement because you finally broke the collar. It recognized its owner." Tears - real tears - finally came to my eyes. For nineteen years I thought I was nothing. A mistake. "My mother... is she..." He was silent for a long moment. His violet eyes were sad. "Marcus killed her. The day you were born. He told his pack she died in childbirth. He put that cursed collar on you as a baby to suppress your royal powers, so you would never know who you were. He raised you as a slave to hide his crime. If the vampire council knew he murdered a royal princess, they would have wiped out his entire pack twenty years ago." I couldn't breathe. The room was spinning. My father... my father murdered my mother. And enslaved me. A sound came out of my throat that was not human. It was not vampire. It was a wounded animal sound. My fangs grew longer. My nails dug into the silk sheets, tearing them. The other voice inside me - the growl I heard in the basement - roared awake. _Kill him. Kill them all._ My body started to shake violently. Pain shot through my spine. My bones felt like they were breaking and reforming. I cried out and fell to the floor. "What is happening to me?" I screamed. The Vampire King was instantly on the floor with me, holding me, but keeping a distance, as if afraid to hurt me. "Your wolf. It's waking up. The collar suppressed both sides. Now that it's gone, your wolf side is coming out for the first time. It's your first shift. It's going to hurt. Breathe, Lin Yue. Breathe." "I'm not a wolf! I'm a vampire!" I sobbed, my back arching. I could feel hair growing on my arms, then disappearing. My teeth were changing - fangs, then canines, then fangs again. "You are both," he whispered in my ear, his voice steady, anchoring me. "You are the first hybrid born in a thousand years. Half vampire princess, half Alpha wolf. That's why they collared you. That's why they feared you. A hybrid is more powerful than both." The pain was unbearable. I felt like I was being torn in half. "I can't! It hurts! Make it