Mated to the Alpha and His Beta (Lanie Stanton) novel Chapter 495

Chapter 495
Stella

The comparison to a wildlife documentary seemed even more accurate when I was a bystander and observer instead of a participant. Everywhere I looked, there was something going on that had my eyes going wide or made my hold back a laugh or gasp of surprise.

Humans sure did get up to some wacky hijinks once they got going with some booze in their systems.

I kept my back firmly against the bar behind me, so nobody could surprise me. On the far side of the room, shadows were split with flashing lights as people gathered around a long table. Each end was set up with red plastic cups, and the teams looked like they were bouncing small plastic balls in an attempt to get them into the cups. When someone made it, a small splash wafted a scent of yeast and hops toward me. Beer. The person who got the ball in the cup shouted and…drank the contents.

Gross!

Still, I was intrigued. I’d told my aunt I wanted to be normal, but what was common for humans wasn’t necessarily translated into what supernaturals would do. At the same time, I could see so many similarities. Our physical forms were basically the same, at least between humans, shifters, witches, and vampires. This hinted at common ancestry.

I concentrated for a few seconds on my inner library but didn’t give myself time to do any more searching. I couldn’t forget how Selena had described me as going blank. I couldn’t afford to do that here in Paradise, not even for a few seconds. But I was intrigued at this new realization of how much alike we all were.

My mom and her sister were both hybrids. So were Alaina and Isaac, and their birth mother, Alice, was likely one, too. I myself was a hybrid of the most complex sort, a blend of every single supernatural that had ever existed. It should have been as natural for me to be born looking like a Cyclops or Fae as it was for me to look like a wolf shifter. Yet my natural appearance, the one I didn’t have to think about to keep, matched my parents’.