Mated to the Alpha and His Beta

Chapter 423

Lanie

Being able to glimpse what Stella had been able to see about the High Council
should have been more comforting, but knowing their plans made me so angry I
had to get up and pace around the room.

Only when I paused to look at my mates’ startled expressions did I realize that I'd
been buzzing around the room like a bee. I consciously slowed myself. I hadn't
even broken a sweat this time.

Xander punched a fist into his opposite palm. “We'll be ready for them!”

Stella shook her head. “Sorry, Daddy, but no. The High Council has way too
many soldiers at their command. More even than you've ever known of.
They've spent their time these past months recruiting.

There aren't enough people in Brightsky who are combat trained.”

Mason shook his head. “We were trying to work on that.”

“No time for it now,” Xander said.

“There won't be enough capable staff to fight and protect those not capable of
fighting,” Stella explained.

“Everyone in this place has some kind of talent,” I said. “You're telling me that
with all the different types of supernaturals in Brightsky, we can't protect
ourselves?”

Xander also got up to pace, his steps measured and heavy as he walked. His
expression had tightened and gone dark, and I could practically see his thoughts
whirling, even if I couldn't hear them. If he wasn't my mate, the look on his face
would have terrified me.

The High Council had no idea who they were messing with, and a fierce pride
rose in my chest.

“Most of the people who live here in the enclave have never had to even think
about fighting or defending themselves. They've been safe here for so long,”
Stella said. “In his own way, Malachi has been as detrimental to the enclave as
the High Council was in

determining that they'd keep the truth about the Great Wars and the world at
large hidden away from all of

you. By reassuring them over and over that they had no reason to fear, Malachi
has made it almost impossible

for any of them to fight.”

“What about a spell? The witches here should be able to come up with some kind
of protection, right?

Can't we use that, somehow?” Mason suggested.

Zane didn't pace. He sat back on the couch with his hands gripping his knees.
A sense of unease drifted to me through the mind link. Not the new one Stella
had created, and not the

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mate bond, but through my private connection with him. When Zane thought of
witches, he was afraid.

I wasn't sure he was even aware of that fear, but when he imagined the use of
spells, even in Brightsky's defense, he flashed back to Rhiannon and being
forced to succumb to the workings of her magic. He also remembered using
magic to help me get inside the hybrid testing facility, and, even further back, the
spell that had taken our memories, making me Katie. A spell had also hidden my
hybrid self from me.

“Magic isn't always bad, love, “I thought to him.

I understood why he thought it was, but I had to believe it could also be used for
good.

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Zane looked at me with wide eyes.

We shared a silent communication,
unshared by anyone else. I tried to

send him as much comfort as I

could, but I could tell that he was still
unsettled by the idea that we might

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“I don't trust witches,” Xander said to his brother.

Mason's expression got grim. “At this point, I'm not sure we have a choice.”
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“Magic can only do so much,” Stella
declared but with a tone of respect

for her fathers. “It can protect, yes,

but for a complex of this size, any
protection spell will be limited. In

order to cast bigger spells, there'd

need to be a much greater advance
warning, and even then, you'd have to
have so many spellcasters working
together. Not every witch is even

capable of that level of strength.

That's why the spiders have become
such an integral part of the enclave.
They've had generations to adapt and
grow. They've entwined themselves

into the very fabric of the enclave.

Their magic is so inherent in the
structure and workings of Brightsky

that nothing can truly replace them.”

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“We have to save them,” I said fiercely, my heart breaking at the thought of all
those small lives destroyed

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I hadn't even known about them until

a short time before, but the idea that

the High Council could simply wipe

them out...I shuddered and fell silent.

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Tears p rickled in my eyes, mingled anger and sorrow

life

All I wanted was to live a peaceful life, and the High Council was making that
impossible.

e, and the High Council was making that impossible.

“We have to save everyone,” I added before anyone else could speak.

Stella stepped closer to me. “And we will, Mother. As soon as you leave.”