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.

Sun rose and set,

span of minutes. I walked through the trees

on her head,and I let her

me a

Moon Goddess under the light of her sister

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

meadow.

in my hand and licked. Then she ran away. I reached

my body. Hands on me.

Katie, Lanie, Katie, Lanie.

Who was I?

had I ever

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Who would I become?

that made my head spin. Dizzy, I sank onto a bed of soft grass while the flowers crushed underneath me and cast out even more glorious scents. I looked up

and to some, less powerful. She guided and blessed the wolves and kept

arched as a

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

die in the sunshine without protection, and I

the Moon Goddess.

floating, my toes barely grazing the ground and the grass

in their lights. Silver

I felt strength and power, as well as

came ferocity, determination, and an edge of fear. A promise of punishment,if I did not obey. “I don’t understand, Moon Goddess! Please, as your humble ser vant, I beg

see her, but her voice filled my head with a chime like bells. Like the soft