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.

think I understand, Moon Goddess. I have to trust in you.

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 it, but who

I cried out into the skies.

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,

I was in darkness.

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

pulled myself back from the edge. I couldn’t tell if

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darkness,

test, I wasn’t sure I was

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

of a dim glow. It looked really far away, like the light at the end of a tunnel. I blinked, realizing my eyes must have been open. They’d been open the entire time, waiting for

see.

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

going