Chapter 1

I wished the earth would open up and swallow me whole if I had to listen to my sister blab about her boyfriend another second. I watched as she flipped her long, silk pressed blonde hair and I couldn't help the fact that I envied her. She fiddled with her perfectly manicured nails and nudged me in the side. 

I was getting pretty annoyed with her and I tried my best to drown out her voice as she spoke. My attention was focused on my cereal the entire time until I heard his name fall from her filthy mouth. 

"Carter." She had said breathy as if it was the best thing she had ever heard, when mom asked her about his name.

I am sure it could never be the same Carter I have been obsessing over for years. The one that failed to take notice of me. It must be some other Carter she met at the nightclub. It was simply not possible for Ava to swipe such a dark and mysterious man away from me. He was not mine but deep down I had a feeling we were connected to each other. It was only a matter of time he took notice of me. I had told myself multiple times but I have only met him once when I was ten years old. I have never seen him after that. 

"Carter?" I inquired as my heart pounded in my chest so fast I could hear it inside my eardrum. 

"Who is this Carter you are talking about?" 

A smug grin formed on her lips before her piercing gaze landed on me. "The Carter you work for!" She squealed as she said it. 

My heart leaped into my throat as the words left her mouth. That was not possible. Ava must have been lying about the whole thing. There was no way she was able to win the heart of a man as mischievous as Carter. 

"Are we talking about the same Carter Demitri here?" I cringed as his name rolled off my tongue. 

Knowing Ava all too well I found it rather difficult to believe a word that left her lips. There was no damn way she was able to swipe that man away. He never paid much attention to women and he was mysterious on a level that no one had ever seen him with one.

Despite working in his Multi-million dollar publishing firm, I have never come face to face with him. He was always too busy investing his time traveling and attending business meetings.

Not only was he my bosses, bosses, boss, but he was also the Alpha of my notorious pack. He was fared by every wolf that walked the earth. 

How did my sister manage to capture a man like Carter under her dark web? I racked my brain to the max but I was still unable to come up with a suitable answer. 

"I don't know of another Carter Demitri." She rolled her eyes. Clearly annoyed with my questions. " Are you trying to say that I am unable to get a man like Carter?" She asked with furrowed brows. 

My eyes widened a bit and my heartbeat became defiant. My sister was drop dead gorgeous with her deep ocean blue eyes that complemented her wavy blonde hair. She had the body of a model which allowed her to wear anything. She could wear a rug and she would still look fabulous.

I have always envied her for her good looks since I was the opposite of her. She was able to get her wolf at the age of eighteen while I on the other hand was considered an abomination. I was looked down on and scorned by everyone in my pack including my own parents. They never lifted their hands at me and I was grateful for that. 

I was never given the attention a child should have been given thus I was raised by my family's housemaid who was like my mother. She was the only one that truly understood me. She raised me up to the point that I was no longer dependent on her for care. I had to grow up mostly on my own since my family was not there for me. 

I was tugged from my thoughts by the sound of Ava's manicured nails tapping against the marble countertop. 

I propped up my elbow on the counter top and resumed eating my saggy cereal. I felt so uncomfortable in my own skin as I was unable to come up with a response to her question. Her piercing eyes bored holes on my skin as she stared at me. Mom's eyes were also on me. I could feel their eyes drilling through my skin painfully. Dad was too busy reading the newspaper with a steaming mug of coffee in front of him to take part in our conversation. 

"Just what I thought." She murmured, feeling satisfied with my silence. "Don't forget that I am not like you Alessandra. I don't wear baggy t-shirts and messy hair." Ava's gaze was venomous towards me. "Not to mention those dark circles under your eyes that you need to take care of." She looked at me disgusted. 

Dark circles I got from working late hours to contribute to this family which was not in need of my money. I thought to myself but I was too scared to voice out my opinion. 

I swallowed the bile that arose in the back of my throat. This was what I had to go through every morning with her. It was not new to me. I was still not able to cope with it. After all those years of thinking that I was able to get over her annoyance, I was wrong. 

A second long silence erupted in the large kitchen before it was cut off by mom. 

"We should invite Alpha Carter for dinner." She suggested. 

I chewed my cereal silently and impatiently awaited my sister's response. I still doubt that she was able to get a man with a status as high as Alpha Carter. 

My family was not wealthy but instead in the middle class. We could sustain ourselves and still live a luxurious life. My family was however not popular but well known as the family that gave birth to a wolf-less child. It was uncommon for a child with both her parents from a wolf bloodline to give birth of a human child. I was the first of my kind thus it made me an abomination. I was however happy that the wolf Gene skipped me because I didn't have to put up with the mate bond and heating which Ava experienced after she wolfed out for the first time. 

Ava snorted and said. "I don't think Carter would be able to make an appearance." 

Of course he would not be able to show up. He was way too busy to meet his newly found girlfriend's family. I rolled my eyes at the thought of the both of them being lovey dovey across the dining table. The thought of it made me sick to my stomach. I no longer had the appetite to eat the rest of the cereal. I played with the cereal in the milk. 

My mother's gaze shifted to me and I couldn't help but sink further down on the stool hoping that she wouldn't say anything to me. Her once beautiful smile wiped off her face and was replaced by a more sterner look. 

"I haven't heard you talking about any men. Is there anyone special in your life?" She asked. 

I knew the reason her appearance had changed when she started talking to me. We were not close. We hardly knew each other. 

I shook my head and stuffed another spoonful of cereal in my mouth. My cheeks heated up at the thought of me dating a man. I covered my flaming cheeks with my light red hair to prevent my mother from noticing that I was blushing. I haven't put much thought into it. I was not scared of getting my heart crushed but at the same time who would date someone like me? I was not pretty. There was always something about men that turned me off.

"I don't think she knows how to approach a man." Ava snickered and said. 

She wasn't lying about that part. I had no idea what to say in order to get a man's attention. 

They always scurried away after hearing my first words.

I didn't see the point of dating when I was younger since I had hopes that I would find a mate. Now that I was more mature I noticed that the idea was in fact naive. There was no way a woman like me would find a mate. After all, I was only a human child born to a wolf family. Even if it were possible for me to find a mate there was no way a man would accept me. I would be rejected the moment they discovered that the wolf Gene had skipped me. I wouldn't blame them for doing that. I probably would have done the same to myself.