Mated to the Alpha and His Beta

Chatper 377

Chapter 377
Lanie
The thud of someone dropping a heavy book startled me into full consciousness. I was back in the library.
Lily had retreated. The Moon Goddess was nowhere to be seen…
But the lingering scent of pine needles still tickled my nose.
I hadn’t fallen asleep and dreamed it. She’d come to me in a vision with a message, one clear enough that I didn’t have to fight to figure it out. I sent up a grateful prayer with a small, embarrassed chuckle at how hard
she’d had to work for me.
“Sorry, Lily,” I murmured to my wolf, who’d also been doing her very best to get me to see the message.
There was a book in this library that would tell me everything I needed to know. Now, I just had to find it. It was probably wrong to fold up the sheaf of papers into a fat square and shove it into the pocket of my jeans, but I was willing to take that risk. I returned the small stack of books I’d been reading and forced myself to get
into concentration mode.

If finding that book was as easy as looking it up by the title, I’d have found it already. That meant it was
somewhere on these shelves but it had been misplaced, either by accident or maybe on purpose.
But it was here, I knew it in my heart.
There was no librarian here. People who wanted to check out books simply wrote their names and the book titles in a ledger, along with their address in the enclave. I started there, skimming the list of titles just in case someone had checked the book out. I ran my finger down the lines, page after page. I came up with
nothing. That was good…unless someone had taken the book without checking it out.
I wouldn’t let myself believe that. The Moon Goddess was guiding me. I had to trust in that guidance!
But…where to begin? The library itself wasn’t huge, but all four walls had shelves from the floor all the
way to the ceiling, so tall there was a ladder on a rail that you had to climb to get to the very top shelves.
Long rows of other shelves filled the center space with cubbies crammed full of books in the corners, too.
There were also shelves that formed small reading nooks like the one I’d been sitting in.
Thousands of books. No idea where to begin. I thought about what I’d seen in my vision. The size of the
book was a good clue to start with. It had been about the size of a big photo album, not small like a
paperback novel.
Also, it was leather-bound with gold leaf. Many of the books I was looking at had paper covers. I could
eliminate them easily. Even so, it was going to take me a few hours to comb through all of the books.
A quick glance at the big clock on the wall told me I didn’t have hours. I wanted to pick up the pups from
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