Mated to the Alpha and His Beta

Chapter 423

Chapter 423

Chapter 423

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

destroyed

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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.”

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