Mated to the Alpha and His Beta

Chapter 281

Lanie

I pulled up one site that listed a few facts about hybrids, but nothing I didn’t already know. That site led me to another one with a little more information. Mostly speculative rather than first-person experiences. A lot of it seemed wrong.

I was desperate to find out anything that I could use to prepare for raising Stella, but my next hit turned out not to be

about hybrids, at least not directly. It was an old message board where someone had been asking if it was possible that a Luna could ever be stronger than her Alpha.

There hadn’t been much activity in the past few years, but what I first read chilled me and sent my heart racing. The person who’d made the initial post described, well…pretty much everything I’d been feeling lately.

A strong connection to the Moon Goddess. Knowledge about things previously unknown. The ability to send emotions to her mates, or rather, an inability not to send them. There were more items on the list, and as I read them, I felt my palms start to sweat. The final entry took my breath away.

The ability to compel

Alphas could do that, sure, but it wasn’t something Lunas were meant to be able to do. But I could, and had. Even now, when I thought back to the strange push of power that had flowed through me when I was using that ability, I could hardly believe it. I mean, sh it, I could hardly believe anything that had happened to me since that Mating Day, so why was this such a hard thing to swallow?

After all, I knew I was a hybrid.

The person who’d written this post, though, didn’t seem to have any idea that hybrids existed. She wa Luna from a pack someplace in the Midwest, a tiny one by the description. She’d been mated to her Alpha a

Her father had been her Alpha’s father’s Beta. It seemed a little tangled up to me,

mates.

who used the screen name “DarkLuna,” had

powers immediately

the

months, she’d started to notice that

the poster put it, “giving him a

I met him, and he was even stronger now. But that hadn’t seemed unusual. It certainly wasn’t something I could

been doing for him.

strengths were definitely growing,

my heart went out to

1/2

treated bar. And all

actually helped him!

telling her she should never have let herself be stronger than her Alpha. “Let,” like she could help it? Like it was her fault the Moon Goddess had gifted her with more than what her Alpha

me for my strengths, I told myself. But there was a small part of

mall,

post, DarkLuna hadn’t responded to any of the comments. I read them all, even the ones that made me see red with anger. I needed to find out if the reason why she was stronger had anything to do with being a hybrid. And finally, in one of the final