"Hayden, wake your brother up." the familiar deep and and strained voice rang in her ear. It was no surprise he needed her to aid her brother. He was the innocent boy who didn't know anything about the real world.

And yet, he was the honored heir.

"He can wake up himself dad." she yelled back as shook her head to calm down.

I hate him, she thought with gritted teeth, leaving her room to greet the pack.

"Good morning!" she exclaimed, forcing her lips to curve up into a smile. Despite what most believed, she didn't necessarily hate her pack. She saw them as a dysfunctional family, and that was fine.

"Where is Cameron?" her father asked her, acting as though he was her responsibility.

"Probably sleeping. What else does he know to do?" she asked rolling her eyes.

"You are not supposed to roll your eyes at me." he stated, his inner alpha coming out as he searched for dominance.

"And you are not supposed to make Cameron the alpha, give him such a huge responsibility when he can't even get out of bed on his own." she snapped.

"Wake him up." he replied calmly, not in a mood for her childish banter, as he would refer to it.

"I think a nineteen year old man is capable of doing that for himself." she said, emphasizing on the fact that he was nineteen.

 "Should I take that as a no?" he asked, almost trying to threaten the answer out of her.

"Unless you want me to grab him by his hair and drag him down the stair, I won't wake him up." With that, she was gone.

"That girl has some attitude." he thought out loud in disbelief, "a female can never be alpha."

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"Cameron, back off." Hayden said, rage in her eyes.

"You are the one coming it between me and my bed." he said, looking over at his unkempt bed. Hayden herself never made her bed, but she knew a thing or two about not leaving bread crumbs on it, inviting ants to come and feed themselves.

"Tell dad that you don't want to be alpha, it's too much work for you anyway." she said, trying to reason with him.

"Maybe I want the power." he said as he looked up to meet her eyes, "Besides, how pathetic does it sound? having a female lead everyone?"

"If you don't shut your male chauvinist mouth right now, Your teeth will be on the ground." she spoke through gritted teeth as her blood boiled with anger. A self-absorbed brat was the least you could expect from a family like hers but he had gone a step too far.

"I don't deal with empty threats." he replied.

"That's true, you run to our father like any four year old would." she spat out those words with hate.

"Here's a pro tip- next time you want something, be nice to him and don't be such a disappointment." he said, waiting for her reaction.

She hated being the disappointment that no one was proud of.

"At least I try." she said, trying to convince herself.

"Trying ain't enough, big sis." 

A low growl escaped her lips as her legs trembled, losing control. He knew that she had problems.

"You going to start crying? I really don't have time for this right now."

Except she wasn't going to cry.

"I am not a fragile baby." she said, hurling herself at him. For someone who slept almost all the time, he was pretty quick. He pulled himself atop the bed, getting out of her way.

She lifted her leg up, ready to kick him on the knee. This time however, he didn't see that coming. As her legs came in contact with his, he fell to the ground on his knees, clutching on to them in pain

"If you won't get out of my way, I'll get rid of you." she said, her eyes gleaming with hatred. 

She picked up the silver lamp on his bedside table. His bedside table had a bajillion ants swarming around and that disgusted her. On any other day, she'd ask him to kill those ants but today, she had more important things on her mind.

"Dad will hate you for it; then you can kiss your dreams of becoming an alpha goodbye." Cameron spoke with a smirk curving up his lips.

"I was never going to get it anyway." she said hurling the lamp right at the back of his head. He screamed in pain as the bulb's glass exterior shattered when it came in contact with his hard, round head.

"You're out of control." he said as cough escaped his mouth right after. 

"I guess he'll no longer have a precious heir to succeed him," she said with a hollow smile "and he will have no choice but to give it to me."

Cameron covered his head, trying to shield away her following ambushes. He knew she wouldn't stop, especially not after he triggered her impulse.

"I'm sorry." he said, breathing out heavily as he whimpered on the ground.

"Of course you are, your life is in my hands. Back off or you die here." she said looking at him blankly. This side of her was something the pack always tried to keep under the surface. 

"Hayden?" she heard her father call out to her, causing her to jerk her head up in horror.

"Do not rat me out you little snitch." she spat out as she picked the lamp up from the ground, leaving no evidence behind.

He better keep that a secret, she thought as balled up her fist, slamming hard on her brown, wooden table.

She looked up from her poorly shaped toe-nails when she heard her door creak open. Stern eyes met hers as she started preparing herself for the interrogation that she knew was going to commence.

"Why was your brother screaming?" he asked, his eyes not moving from hers as he looked for an earnest answer.

"He probably ate all of his chips." she replied as calmly as she could.

"Is that why a broken lamp is in your hand?" he asked, taking in all the details "What did you do, Hayden?"

"I did what you should have done to him a long time ago," she began "I put him in his place."

"If anything happens to him, I won't be the sane man I am right now." he said anger rising up all of his nerves.

"Sane man?" she scoffed at his ill-tempered face, "a sane man wouldn't throw away his family's name for a couch potato."

"That couch potato is my heir."

Author's Note: Yayyyy First chapter!! What did you think? Aren't I amazing at making couch potatoes? 'Tis ez cuz I am one 😂. I'm a bed potato but whatever. Anyways, I hope you like this chapter (which you obviously do), me liked writing it. Vote on this chapter and comment and stuff cuz I love notifs 🤑. I update every Sunday and I'm a dedicated kid so you can chill and read this and stuff ya know. Tell me what you think of the characters and stuff. Ok I have nothing to say so byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!