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

I walked through

her head,and I let

show me a meadow full of flowers. The sun

I ever communicated with the Moon Goddess under the

me in the Moon’s silver glow. Right now, the golden light beckoned me, and I went

meadow.

licked. Then she ran away. I

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

Katie, Lanie, Katie, Lanie.

Who was I?

I

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Who would I become?

I sank onto a bed of soft grass while the flowers crushed

less powerful. She guided and blessed the wolves and kept us from harm, while

a

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

in the sunshine without protection, and I

Moon

barely grazing the ground and the grass and

bathed me in their lights. Silver and

felt strength and power, as well as comfort. Assurance.

promise of punishment,if I did not obey. “I don’t understand, Moon Goddess! Please, as your humble ser vant, I

the soft hush of waves rolling