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.

and set, and

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

on her head,and I let

me a meadow full of flowers. The

Moon Goddess under the light of her sister Sun?

glow. Right now, the golden light beckoned

meadow.

snuffed in my hand and licked. Then she ran away.

my body. Hands on me.

Katie, Lanie, Katie, Lanie.

Who was I?

I

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some sweet perfume 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 at the sky

than her sister, and to some, less powerful. She guided and blessed the wolves and kept us from harm, while the Sun had the strength and power to give life…and take it

arched as a groan slipped out of

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

sunshine without

the Moon Goddess.

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

bathed me in their lights. Silver and

and

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

a chime like bells. Like the soft hush of waves rolling against a shore. Like a mother singing her babies to