Mated to the Alpha and His Beta

Chapter 428

Lanie

I was alone with the scent of the forest and what felt like a breeze across my face. The trees sang in low

murmurs as the wind passed through their branches. Peace, calm, serenity…

when was the last time I’d felt any of that? So long ago that I couldn’t recall a time when I’d felt only

comfort. No anxiety.

“Moon Goddess?”

I reached for her and got only silence in return.

Slowly, I turned in a circle. I knew I had to be experiencing this in my own mind, and that she hadn’t

transported me physically. I wore a soft gown of pale-green fabric, knotted at the shoulders. Around my waist,

a golden cord nipped the dress against my hips, and the hem was so long only the tips of my toes peeped out.

My hair cascaded down my back in ripples and waves.

I thought I must look something like a goddess,myself.

I wanted to run. To fight. To scream and argue.

I wanted answers. Safety. Knowledge.

But Goddesses don’t answer to those they protect; I could only wait for her to show me what she wanted

me to see.

rose and set, and

passed in the span of minutes. I walked through the trees and slowly became

on her head,and I

parted to show me a meadow

under the light of her

the Moon’s silver glow. Right now, the golden light

meadow.

ran away. I reached

knew there was something desperate happening to my body. Hands on me. Voices calling

Katie, Lanie, Katie, Lanie.

Who was I?

had I ever

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Who would I become?

perfume that made my head spin. Dizzy, I sank onto a bed of soft grass while the flowers crushed underneath me

time. So much smaller than her sister, and to some, less powerful. She guided and blessed the wolves and kept us from harm, while the Sun

a groan slipped out of

I felt the sharpness of vampire fangs. They dented my bottom lip, piercing my own flesh until I

the sunshine without protection, and I

Moon Goddess. You have

I was floating, my toes barely grazing the ground and the grass and the crushed

Moon and the Sun both bathed me in their lights.

strength and power,

not obey. “I don’t understand, Moon Goddess! Please, as your humble ser vant, I beg of you to help

her, but her voice filled my head with a chime like bells. Like the soft hush of waves rolling against a shore.