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

8 Echoes of

my

wolf…

Lyla

I must have drifted into sleep when Xander took me to the guest bedroom upstairs.

Something tickled me on my chin and I opened my eyes.

I was in the Northern forests this time around the same forest where I had been attacked by those Feral wolves. Cold air brushed against my skin as I stood among the towering trees, their branches blocking off the light from the sun or was it the moon – I couldn’t tell what time of the day it was.

How did I get here? I wondered looking around. I was so sure I was in the human world or did something happen to me while I was sleeping? My heart raced as I strained my eyes in the darkness hoping those wolves would not attack again. I try to bring out my phone to call someone, maybe Nathan, since I was back here, perhaps, he would take my calls or respond to

my messages.

But when I looked down, I was clad in strange–looking clothes. It was made with part metal, the kind used by warriors to fight in the old time and the other part was made of a really light material that resembled the gown, I had worn when I was healing at the healer’s quarters in White Mountain pack.

How had I gotten into this? I wondered again. Was there another attack? Was this Ramsey’s doing?

“Lyla…”

Suddenly, a voice called out. The whisper seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere at once. I spun around, my hear racing and eyes wide, as I searched for the source of the voice but all I could see were the trees blending into the shadows.

“Lyla…” the voice came again.

I shuddered stumbling backwards as I tried to look for a weapon. I would not allow them to attack me again. Anything that would make me stay away from Ramsey. I bent slowly, searching the ground around me while my eyes scanned my surroundings.

“Who’s there?” I called out with a trembling voice.

I found something long and thick… maybe it was a stick. It was so dark, that I couldn’t see. I picked it up and held it in front of me.

“Lyla!” the voice came the third time and it sounded like it was behind me. I whirled around but saw only trees and shadows. “Why don’t you stop being a coward and show yourself” I called out, my voice wavering.

“I’m here, Lyla,” the voice echoed, now seeming to come from my left. “I’ve always been here.”

frustration and fear building within me. “Who are you? What do you

resonated through the trees. “I am your wolf, Lyla. The part of you that

Echoes of my wolf…

that’s been trapped.”

just me and the voice… I guess. “What do you mean, my wolf?” I scoffed. “No! That’s impossible. I don’t have a wolf. If this is a means to scare me, then you’re failing because I’m just a werecreature without a wolf.” “Are you

I paused “You’re inside

–

you the other day but you got so scared and left. I’m sorry, I couldn’t heal

interrupted the voice, lowering my stick weapon but not letting it go. “What sort of absurdity is this? If you are really inside me, I

is holding me back. I cannot. even physically communicate with you except through the dream world. I am caged, trapped in something that I cannot understand. You must go back to

me back to this world

I mean. Your mom

think my parents would suddenly forgive me out of the blues?” I cut the voice short before. it continued. “They hate me in case you haven’t noticed and the only thing they might do is kill me. Look, I’ve been through so much already… I don’t want another dose of that

before it continued. “Appearances can be deceiving, Lyla… Do not believe the front presented at you. Something is holding me…

pulse quickened. “I don’t understand. What has that got to do with me? A trap?

me and it’s only a matter of time before the veils are torn completely. When you save yourself, when you break free from the illusions binding

pressed “What are you

fading now… I could barely hear it. “It will guide you to

trees the voice was definitely not coming from inside me. I would feel it, right?

Echoes of my wolf…

I need to save? What are you talking about?” I demanded, my voice rising in desperation. “Wait!” I called out as another whisper came from the trees. “Don’t go! I still don’t understand! I don’t have a wolf or

there, frozen, my heart still thudding as I tried to entangle everything

shadows between the trees. Red eyes gleamed in the darkness with low growls filling the air. My

Wolves – the exact ones that had attacked me before. They weren’t alone… they had come with the other creature in white, the one who had attacked me. It was larger than I remembered. It moved

least, I could make out the eyes.

filled with mockery.

might burst from my chest. I lifted the stick and pointed at it. “Stay away from me,” I

fear.

all share one thing in common – Stupidity,” It huffed.

choose anything. This is just a dream… it has to be. I am in the human world and not

“Or is it the truth your consciousness refuses to see? You’re so close, Lyla. So close to embracing your

true nature?” I asked, backing away slowly, my feet dragging against the damp forest