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“Are you coming or not?” My Alpha-to-be brother says they accidentally booked one extra seat at their expensive dinner. For the first time, I think my family might actually want me there. I put on my only decent dress and take three buses across town. But when I arrive, I hear my mother say, “Aria has sticky fingers. What if she steals Eden's allowance again?” I stand frozen outside their table. They aren't inviting me to celebrate. They are making sure I don't take anything. I quietly turn around. Then my mother asks what college I got into. I don't answer. Because my Royal Fang Academy acceptance letter is worth far more than anything on their table. And soon, they'll realize they were wrong about the daughter they discarded. Because I was never given enough to eat, I once stole from the jar in the pack house. After my sister, Eden, told on me, my parents called me a thief by nature. From that day on, my monthly a11owance is cut, while Eden's is raised. Everything they spend on me is recorded in a ledger. They calculate interest at the highest bank rate, turn it into a promissory note, and force me to sign it. The day I receive my acceptance letter, I clutch the admission letter from Royal Fang Academy, the highest-ranking academy in the entire Werewolf Realm, and approach my parents, hoping to ask them to advance my college tuition. But they are gathered around Eden, who can only attend a community college, and they do not even look at me. "Your tuition is expensive. That's not a problem. Of course we're willing to pa-y!" My brother Damon, the future Alpha of the pack, waves his hand with a smug smile. "I've already rented you an apartment off campus for all four years. That way, you won't have to share a dorm with anyone, and you can throw parties whenever you want." The whole family laughs for a long time before finally noticing me standing in the corner. My parents frown and, as usual, pull out a stack of promissory notes. "Well? What do you want this time?"
