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.
“I think I understand, Moon Goddess. I have to trust in you. In Stella. But most of
all, in myself.”
The laughter of a Goddess is a blessing 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 it, but who had allowed me to reach this
place.
“Thank you, thank you!” I cried out into the skies. “I'm ready!”
With a rumble of thunder, storm 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 quickly covered up its silver
sheen.
I was in darkness.
I couldn't see the path in front of me, but worse than 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 edge of the world.
With a scream, I pulled myself back from the edge. I couldn't tell if I had my eyes
open or closed.
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Everything was darkness, either way.
If this was a test, I wasn't sure I was going to pass it
Time passed like the beat of a heart 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 next.
Slowly, I became aware 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 something to
see.
The glow brightened. 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 lifted my hair. If I
lost my balance, I'd fall and plunge into that darkness.
I wasn't going to lose anything.
“Mother?” Stella's voice came to me from that light.
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I took the first step. My heart seized
as my body tensed, waiting to hurtle
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“Mother, follow my voice! You have to come back to us now!”
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It took everything I had, every bit of
willpower, to lift the foot remaining on
the ground. I stepped forward again.
Now there was nothing beneath me. I

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“I'm coming, Stella!”
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I took another step. Another. I walked
on nothing but trust and hope. The
power of my belief buoyed me up.
The love I felt emanating from my
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The light grew brighter, and now it looked like a doorway. Stella stood just inside
it. Behind her, over her shoulder, I could see our living room. My three mates.
My own body, sprawled on the ground like I was dead.
“Come back to us, Mother!”
Step after step, I followed her voice and the light.