The Alpha's Fated Outcast: Rise Of The Moonsinger by Ejiofor Dorcas

17 Finally, a rejection…

Lyla

He stiffened at first at my touch but then his arms came around me, holding me gently. His hand moved to my hair, smoothing it down as he whispered.

“You’re safe now… everything is fine.”

We stayed like that for what seemed like an eternity before I heard the handle of the door to the room turn. Ramsey pushed me back as if he had just touched hot coal, adjusting his shirt as the Pack healer and a few nurses

entered the room.

“Alpha!” the healer said as soon as he spotted Ramsey “No one informed me of your presence. Welcome,” he said.

Ramsey cleared his throat, his gaze darting at me for a second before he took the Healer’s outstretched hand. “I had to come see for myself. Thank you for doing your best and bringing her back.”

The healer laughed “It wasn’t me, Alpha. It was all her and the other gentleman that was here, Nathan, right? Anyway, I need to check on the patient and know how she’s feeling.”

The healer came to me, a smile on his face.

“Welcome back, Miss. It’s a good thing you’re awake. Now, your body will heal quickly. Can you tell me your name first?” he asked.

My gaze darted to Ramsey and he shook his head, an indication that I shouldn’t say my name. Anything that would tie me to him, he was avoiding it. I swallowed hard and looked out of the window.

“You can just call me Miss,” I said.

“Great!” He nodded “Can you tell me how you feel?”

I hesitated, trying to think of how I felt now. Aside from the dull ache in my heart from my mate thrusting me away from him like I was some dirty

secret, I felt strangely fine.

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“I’m fine, I think. A little… confused and out of touch with the timeline but I’m

fine.”

“That’s normal,” the healer nodded. “You’ve been unconscious for nearly a week. You suffered a Feral attack on your back and the wound was so deep that we thought it wouldn’t heal, given the fact that you have no wolf and…”

“She has a wolf!” Ramsey suddenly said, interrupting the healer. “It must have been startled by the entire attack, traumatized. Isn’t it, Miss?”

the healer

and my wolf too does that. There are periods where she shuts down for a while and does not

pack healer nodded, but he didn’t seem

you now!”

minutes later, he was done

reconnects anytime now but you’ll recover. So, all you need to do is

let out a sigh of

Ramsey who had been standing silently at the corner

rest. If you need

room, leaving behind

apology for what he did but the expression I had seen on his face before – the one filled with concern had

he stated, his tone as cold and

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a rejection….

blinked, certain I had misheard him. “What?”

met mine devoid of warmth. “In the beginning, I thought I could cope with having you as my mate,” he continued, not bothering to repeat what he had said. “But I can’t deal with this kind of weakness, Lyla. I’d be wasting our time if I decided to accept you. You’ve been unconscious for seven days and yet you cannot heal…there was no change. Every day

gave way to anger that was slowly simmering inside

you really think this is what I want to hear? After everything you pushed me to do? How

expression hardened. “Maybe but you can call me a monster if it pleases you. You have no idea how much responsibility lies on my shoulders. Do you know what it means to protect our entire world…Carrying you along with me

at his description. “You don’t mean

—

without skipping a beat. “Having you by my side – someone who can’t even heal properly,” he scoffed “Is an extra burden that I cannot afford. You’d be baggage, Lyla – all the things I neither

welled up in my eyes as I stared at the man – My mate before me. This would be the thousandth time I have wondered why the Moon Goddess had chosen this brute as my mate. Everything I knew about the mate bond being sacred, about it bringing

cruel…the height

swallowed them, refusing to give in to the pain that had spread from my heart to

wanted me as your mate but you wouldn’t acknowledge me as one, at least not in front of anyone. And now, you’re rejecting me

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enough for you?”

didn’t flinch. “Yes.”

time, Alpha Ramsey. Go ahead and reject me. See if

thought I must have imagined it. He pulled himself to his full height squaring his

reject you, Lyla…” he paused, frowning. He didn’t

mate he

I supplied coldly.

Lyla Woodland as my mate

fighting the pain that gnawed inside me. “I Lyla