f my muddy smock to reveal my tattered grey mended dress. The dress had been worn for a

n the corner of the door and s

ds and knelt down to put them on for her. Then

I could react, she picked up my clothes and s

ave left! I couldn't

my chin, "It gives me great pleasure to see you suffer. Do you thi

to the royal family, I would be a complete outcast who wasn't accepted by anyone! Lycans usually go

r eyes, and she played with my fea

es about letting other werewolves into their homes,"

pointing to the many jewels in the maid's hand, "I didn't say anything. He just sent these f

a, I can't be sent to the royal family as a

de her legs long and thin. She took off her white silk robe and put on a long, slim, gold fishtail dre

he Crown Kr

cupboard and took out

e." Bernice

lve water-drop-shaped pearls arranged neatly on the crown. On the top of each pearl is a perfectly cut heart-shaped diamond. The base of the

e crown that the satisfaction

other's wedding. It's called the Moonlight Crown, and for royalty, i

nd placed it carefully over Bernice

s of the royal family hav

nd looked at Bernice, who was al

und in our father's admiring gaze like a peacock. Her long gold fishtail dress glowed brig

of me standing there with my head down, and then she rolled he

dresser, and a simple and delicate pearl necklace ca

I had to pinch my hand so hard that the pain

even do this right?" My father's stern voice came, an

ve me! I wanted to yell at him and make a sc

d watched as she stroked the round pearl. The frustration almost made my eyes water. The neckl

, we can't keep the noble Kral waiting." She t

st me, she gave me

party," my father's voice came from

ray dress, my smock and shoes still under the window. I prayed to the moon

ce was marked with dark red palm prints. I looked at my thin feet again, and my right ankle had a gray bruise from a

uddenly remembered my small room, where only a mattress made of weeds and a wooden board served as my bed. I sewed together old clothes that I could no longer

and in the morning my mother would pick out a dress and put it

ories of the past make me sick and wea

rknob c

thin gray dress and lo

pack was in the hall to welcome the Royal

stared at me intently, and whispered, "Le