Mated to the Alpha and His Beta

Chapter 429

Xander

“So, what happens if she doesn’t wake up?” I asked Stella.

“We don’t have time to keep messing around with this s hit,” Mason spat. “Stella, if you expect us not to fight you, then you have to tell us what we can do.”

“Gabriela could come back here at any second,”

Zane said quietly. “If she sees Lanie like this,won’t the High Council also see it? How will we be able to explain it to her without revealing everything?”

“This is a pretty terrible time for the Moon Goddess to put her in a f ucking coma,” I said with my fists clenched. I waited for lightning or something to strike me for my blasphemy.

I almost welcomed it. At least that would be something I could understand.

Something I could hate the Goddess for.

“She’s not in a coma. She’s walking in the world between,” Stella said after a moment. Her expression shadowed. “She’s having trouble returning.”

I growled. My wolf paced. He wanted to leap out of my skin. I wanted to let him. If I was my wolf, I wouldn’t have to deal with any of this.

No. I shook away that cowardice. An Alpha didn’t run. Not from a fight. Not from trouble.

And not from this.

“I was going to leave her as long as the Goddess wanted her, but…” Stella hesitated. Her shoulders bowed, and her head hung. “I’m sorry, fathers. I’m sorry for how hard this all is.”

Her head went up. Her eyes blazed with a swirl of colors, finally settling on a brilliant gold rimmed with silver. I’d never seen anything like it, and the sight had my blood running cold. I’d known our daughter was powerful, but in this moment, she didn’t look…human.

High Council and let them take me. If they have

at once and gathered her against his chest. “Never. I will never allow that, Stella, so you can stop with that nonsense right

what happens if you do

Zane asked quietly.

let her face them alone,” Mason

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Chapter 429

moments in this life. He’d been her father before either me or our Beta. She clung to him now, her face against

anymore. Right now, she looked

father.

twisted. She was our daughter, and there was no way we were ever going to let her face danger without us at

asked, not because I didn’t know, but because I wanted

say it out

she saw along this path, I hoped she’d

apology to the Moon Goddess. I begged

Celestial.

chest,but then, after a

Her silver and gold eyes had faded to their normal color, but I would never forget the

go

dies, that’s what

quietly, holding her gaze

a way to use her, and

be safe… Brightsky would

long?”

she cried. “Id make sure. I wouldn’t do what they want unless