Mated to the Alpha and His Beta

Chapter 430

Lanie

I’d been working with my grandfather and Charlotte to access my different traits. I’d mastered some of them and learned there might be some I’d never be able to control. But until I stood under the mutual glow of both the Moon and the Sun with the stars dancing between them, I hadn’t ever truly accepted that I was not wolf-kind.

I was a hybrid. Many pieces together in one vessel. The body that I’d left behind. The one I needed to return to so I could support my daughter.

For a second that might as well have been an eternity, I tipped my face up to the Sun.

It bathed me in its glow. I held out my arms, letting the golden light cover me all over.

I’d walked in the sunshine for my entire life without worry, not knowing I had vampire blood running in my veins. Not realizing how lucky I was that the Sun didn’t choose to fry me alive.

The future might be obscured to me. I couldn’t look ahead the way my daughter could and see every branching path. I couldn’t predict how my choices would influence what lay ahead.

But I could still make them.

I might never be able to do everything, but that would never again stop me from doing what I could.

have to trust in you. In Stella. But

all its own. Hers rained over me, sparkling silver droplets I could feel as well as hear. I lifted my face to the sky again and danced in the light and laughter of the Goddess I’d been born to serve. I accepted her blessings…and also those of her sister, the Sun, who could have chosen at any moment in my life to end

thank you!” I cried out into the skies.

clouds rolled across the sky. They covered up the stars first,dimming their light and then blinking them to darkness. Next, the Sun itself faded from blazing orange to soft, pale yellow. Then to white, and it, too, was gone. The Moon remained, but the clouds

I was in darkness.

that, I couldn’t even feel it. I tapped a toe and felt something solid underneath it. I took a step, and suddenly, there was nothing to stand on. I teetered on the

back from the edge. I couldn’t tell if I had my eyes open

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darkness, either

wasn’t sure I was going to

or the tick of a clock, but I couldn’t tell if it was hours or minutes or years or eternities. I fought to stop myself from running, plunging over the abyss. I’d trusted the Goddess this far, and I’d accepted her will. I had to remain patient for whatever message she sent me

of a tunnel. I blinked, realizing

see.

I could see the edge just beyond the tips of my bare toes. It looked like I stood on a cliff, but I had no idea how high it was, or what lay below it. I put my foot out,feeling nothing below it but air. An icy wind

wasn’t going to lose