1 The Daughter of the Alpha

Delia’s POV

“She is such a pain in the a.ss. Can't she live without a man's attention?”

After my stepsister Bernice finished cursing me, the surrounding guests burst into laughter.

Today, while I was cleaning up for Bernice and her friends' afternoon tea party, I gave directions to one of Bernice's admirers.

“Thank you,” the man in the haute couture suit gave me a standard social smile, and then kept looking for Bernice.

Unfortunately, the flash of his smile was caught by Bernice, whose gaze was like a poisoned arrow.

Though it was just one of her many suitors that she despised.

“Since she likes to pose in front of men, let her perform for us!” Bernice said viciously as her five large hunting dogs ran to me.

As she beckoned, the hounds' expressions grew more fierce, and some of their eyes glowed with a terrible green light.

I have seen with my own eyes how these hounds tear up their prey. The show, she said, was to watch me shiver under their fangs like those poor animals.