9. Scarlet

Scarlett's POV

I see a fight brewing!. Whenever Jessica was around me, it always resulted into fist fights. That dumb bitch is the most annoying pack member living in the pack house.

It's an undeniable battle of jealousy, she hates my guts because she wishes to be me!, the beloved Alpha's daughter. The one who get special treatment and does whatever she wants. But in the real sense I would switch with her any day to be the one training to be a pack warrior. To be able to change into my wolf anytime and run free.

But that's never going to happen. Not when I just found out tonight that the food and water I've been eating and drinking my whole life contained wolfsbane. No wonder I wasn't allowed to eat with the rest of the pack at the dinning room, father would always escort the maids who brought my food sometimes, no wonder my snacks were kept differently from everyone else and the seals were always broken.

Whenever I questioned father, he's say "It's for your own good", "You're royal, you can't eat with peasants" or 'Your snacks have to be tested to make sure they're safe'. Safe my foot? How is poisoning me for my own good?. How is not shifting to my wolf for my own good, I mean I'm almost 20. Normal wolves shifted at 15.

I stared at Jessica in her ginger colored silk nighty, I thought, maybe what I needed was for me to let all my anger out, even if on Jessica. She does deserve it, she's been my greatest nemesis since forever.

It would be good to let off this steam from my head before my head explodes to smithereens. I had too many confused thoughts and questions.

I faced her squarely, she was leaning against the wall, staring lazily at her perfectly manicured nails, "If I were you, I wouldn't mess with me right now!" I said, regretting the way I squeezed my dress the other time, my nails might be broken now.

Jessica always pretended she was perfect and gorgeous, even at night her dark brown hair was straightened in a tight ponytail pulled away from her face, highlighting her high cheek bone and perfect full lips, shining forehead and perky nose.

Didn't she just wake?. Why the heck is there lipgloss on her lips and why isn't her hair rough like a normal person's bed hair.

I was aware that my hair was all over the place. You try keeping a hair like mine neat. I had long wavy red hair, Scarlett colored, like my name. It reached down all my back stopping just above my butt.

"So bad you're not me uhn?. You can't be me, you haven't shifted. No wolf equals no use. You just sittin' there eating like a pig. Wait even pigs can be used as bacon. What can you be used for?" Her manicured nails went to trail the little edges on her temple. She lifted her leg up dramatically, turning to face me, she removed herself from the wall she was leaning on.

"You disgust me!" My fists have balled again, this time painfully sinking into the skin of my palm under my thumb.

"Oh! You're just a little bitch and what are you gonna do about it."

Maybe it was the anger, the frustration, the hatred, and all emotions that I was feeling, my nails started to elongate! I unballed my fist feeling the sharpness tear into my palm.

I stared down at my hand! My nails were turning to sharp claws, protruding out of my fingers, i gasped in shock staring at them in disbelief.

Did the wolfsbane not work?. Dinner was the only meal of the day I didn't take, meaning I didn't take in wolfsbane this night.

I gasped, my chest heaving in exertion. Not just my nails turning to claws but the skin on my hand was turning to black fur.

"What the heck?" I exclaimed in fear, my knee suddenly felt like jelly and they gave way beneath me. Am I shifting?.

I cried out as my knee twisted painfully! What the hell!. I cried out again as another bone snapped in front me, my right elbow. Am shifting! this is it it's finally happening, I'm shift…

As if I was being remote controlled it stopped all together making me gasp painfully. I was in a half shift, something I've heard it really hard to come by and overcome.

Jessica was looking at on the floor in confusion and shock. I felt like a freak, with claws on my hand, part of me was covered in fur but I still had two legs and two arms whose nails were claws.

It must be the wolfsbane not allowed me to access my wolf completely, this sucks!.

"I knew you were a little b"tch, freak!."

My eyes darted to her angrily, all the anger imposed on me suddenly resurfacing, she flinched at the intensity of my eyes on her.

I snarled, realizing my teeth had changed too, my canines were protruding more and sharp trimmed ready to bite.

I'm gonna make this girl eat her words. I threw myself into the air towards her covering the distance in the blink of an eye. My claws reached for her shoulder and grabbed it firmly in a blink of an eye. My weight outed hers allowing me pin her to the ground.

"Get off me" she yelled kicking the side of my rib cage, I groaned in pain and used my right claw to slice her right thigh.

"You think you're something bitch?" She barely let out a whimper staring directly into my eye. Underneath me, with me still pinning her down, she started to shift.

Her ginger colored fur began to appear, replacing her perfect olive skin, her eyes turning into a deeper shade of gray. Sounds snapping and cracking met my ears briefly before she was a full wolf.

With a loud yowl, her snort nudged my neck and her sharp canines sunk into the skin of my neck, tearing into the skin and drawing blood.

I flinched, letting go of my hold on her.