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.

Council

to her at once and gathered her against his chest. “Never. I will never

seen what happens

Zane asked quietly.

We won’t let her face them alone,” Mason snapped back

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Chapter 429

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

now, she looked like a scared young woman seeking

father.

was. My heart twisted. She was our daughter, and there was

go alone?” I asked, not because I

say it out

she saw along this path, I hoped she’d realize she couldn’t take it.

Moon Goddess. I begged her to

Celestial.

against Mason’s chest,but then, after a few seconds, lifted

their normal color, but

go

that’s what happens,” Mason

a Celestial,” I said quietly, holding her gaze with my own. “They

to use her,

safe… Brightsky would be

how long?” I

make sure. I wouldn’t do what they want unless they