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 span of minutes. I walked through the trees

her head,and

the trees parted to show me a meadow

the Moon Goddess under the light of

glow. Right now, the

meadow.

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

knew there was something desperate happening to my body.

Katie, Lanie, Katie, Lanie.

Who was I?

I

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bed of soft grass while the flowers crushed underneath me and cast out even more glorious scents. I looked up at the sky and

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

arched as a groan slipped out of

dented my bottom lip, piercing my own flesh until I tasted a hint of

die in the sunshine without

the Moon Goddess.

was floating, my toes barely grazing the

bathed me in their lights.

strength and

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

voice filled my head with a chime like bells. Like the soft hush of waves rolling against a shore.