Rejected By Wolves, Claimed By The Vampire King

than Wolf was standing in the rain at 2 AM outside the most expensive vampire tower in Shanghai, shouting my slave name through a loudspeaker like I was a lost dog. I stood barefoot o

shment for that is, according to the truce treaty your grandfather signed?" Marcus looked up at Kade, and for the first time, I saw fear in my father's eyes. "Vampire King," Marcus said stiffly. "That girl is my daughter. Pack law says a daughter belongs to her pack until marriage. She is a runaway minor. Return her." "Daughter?" Kade laughed, and the sound made all the streetlights flicker. "You call her daughter now? Where was this daughter love when you made her scrub your floors with a silver collar that burned her flesh for nineteen years? Where was this love when you murdered her mother, Princess Lin Xiya, and hid her body?" Silence. Absolute silence. Even the rain seemed to stop. The wolves looked at each other, shocked. They didn't know. The younger wolves didn't know who my mother really was. Marcus's face went white. "You lie!" "I never lie, dog," Kade said coldly. "Her pendant proves it. Imperial Jade only reacts to royal blood. Do you want me to bring the Vampire Council here and let them test her? Do you want them to know you killed a royal princess? What do you think they will do to your pack then?" Gunnar, the fat Alpha, took a step back from Marcus. "You told me she was a low slave! You told me her mother was a nobody! Marcus, you said if the vampires find out-" "Shut up!" Marcus roared at him. His yellow wolf eyes came out. He was losing control. Ethan saw his father panicking and did the stupid thing brave, cruel boys do. He shifted. In the middle of the street, in front of humans' security cameras, he shifted into his wolf form - a large grey wolf - and howled. "I WILL KILL YOU AND TAKE HER!" his wolf howl said in wolf language, which I now understood. "SHE IS MINE!" He jumped. Wolves can jump incredibly high when they are angry. He jumped onto the side of the building, claws digging into concrete, climbing up floor by floor, fast, aiming for our balcony. The other wolves howled and started to climb too. "KADE!" I shouted, terrified. Kade didn't move. He just looked at Ethan climbing, his eyes bored. "Little princess," he said to me calmly, even as a giant wolf was climbing 60 floors to kill us. "Do you remember lesson one? Control both sides. Don't panic. What do you want to do?" "I want him off my building!" I shouted. "Then tell him." I didn't understand, but my body did. The wolf inside me - my wolf - stood up. I leaned over the balcony railing, looked down at Ethan who was now at the 20th floor, climbing fast, teeth bared, and I let out a howl. Not a slave's cry. Not a vampire hiss. A true Alpha howl. Silver and red. My hybrid howl. The sound was so powerful that the glass windows of the entire skyscraper shook. The rain around me froze in mid-air for a second. Ethan, mid-climb, froze. Every wolf below froze. Because my howl carried Alpha command - stronger than Marcus's, stronger than Ethan's. _STOP. KNEEL._ Ethan whimpered. His claws slipped. He fell. Twenty floors down, crashing onto a car roof. He shift