**CHAPTER 38**
**THE ANSWER**
**BETTY’S POV**
I ran until my lungs felt like they were tearing open.
Branches clawed at my arms and snagged in my dress, but I didn’t slow down. I didn’t care where I was going. I only knew that every second I stayed near him made the truth harder to swallow.
The Alpha.
My mate.
I had waited for this day for years, even when I refused to admit it out loud. I had wondered what it would feel like when the Moon Goddess finally chose someone for me. Whether he would look at me and see more than an omega. Whether I would finally belong somewhere.
Instead, it was him.
Alpha Alex.
The same man who had pinned me against a wall and closed his hand around my throat until the world went gray. The same man who threatened Omega Land every time I refused him. Wh
