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, and

minutes. I walked through the trees and slowly became aware

rested on her head,and I let her lead

of me, the trees parted to show me a meadow full of

ever communicated with the Moon Goddess under the light of her

Moon’s silver glow. Right now,

meadow.

licked. Then she ran away. I reached for her, but

something desperate happening to my body.

Katie, Lanie, Katie, Lanie.

Who was I?

I ever

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while the flowers crushed underneath me and cast out even more glorious scents. I looked up at the sky and saw the sun, so bright I had to

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

back arched as a groan slipped out

dented my bottom lip, piercing

in the sunshine without protection, and

the Moon Goddess.

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

and the Sun both bathed me in their lights. Silver and gold swirled

the Moon, I felt strength and power,

not obey. “I don’t understand, Moon Goddess! Please, as your humble ser vant,

the soft hush of waves rolling