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 the Moon

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

hand rested on her head,and I

front of me, the trees parted to show me a meadow full of flowers. The

under the light

Right now, the golden light beckoned

meadow.

my hand and licked. Then she ran away. I reached for her, but then

was something desperate happening to my

Katie, Lanie, Katie, Lanie.

Who was I?

had I

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Who would I become?

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

smaller than her sister, and to some, less powerful. She guided and blessed

as a groan slipped out

of vampire fangs. They dented my bottom lip, piercing my own flesh

die in the sunshine without protection,

the Moon Goddess. You have

barely grazing the ground and the

both bathed me in their lights. Silver and

and power, as well as comfort. Assurance.

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 of you to help

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