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

Chapter 50

50 Lyla’s discovery…

Lyla

A while later, I was done dressing up.

I went down the stairs checking my phone to see if there were messages for me but there were none – not even from Nanny. I opened my chat with Nathan, my last message was still unread and it’s been 8 months now. Was he angry with me? Did I do something?

Just as I reached the bottom step, my ears picked up the sound of raised voices coming from behind the room next to the staircase making me freeze.

I wanted to walk past or just go to

the kind that you

my room when I heard Xander’s voice. It was filled with rage – didn’t need to see it to confirm because you could feel it. That was strange, in our three months of dating, he had never lost his temper, what could be wrong?

Curious, I crept towards the source of the noise, pressing myself against the door. I didn’t need to strain my ears too much because Xander was actually yelling.

“I didn’t ask you to do that!” he shouted. “Why did you do it? Do know how scared she must have

been?

My breath caught in my throat. Were they talking about me?

Xander continued, his tone rising with each word. “If not for her unique abilities, she wouldn’t have been able to withstand that. She could have died!”

My brows furrowed as I tried to piece together what he was talking about. Unique abilities? Withstand what? Who was he talking about? My mind raced, trying to make sense of what I was hearing.

Another voice responded, sounding low and suppressed but equally angry. It was Mr Dupree.

“This is taking too long. We should have settled all of this a while ago and moved on to more important things.”

I wondered, getting

like before, Mr Dupree

Xander shot back. “I

lodged between her legs all the time. You’re still her slave, even in this life. Wake up! You’re

ran cold, my breath catching in my throat again. What were they talking about? This life? Slave? None of it made sense, and yet a chilling recognition ran down my spine it was as if I knew what they were talking about and at the same time, had no

echoed through the room, as if something or someone crashed against a piece of furniture, followed by someone being hit and then a grunt of muffled pain before silence. My heart

50 Lyla’s discovery….

Someone was coming.

turned on my heel, trying to move quickly up the stairs before the door

called out. “I

excuse, an explanation anything to

his tall frame illuminated by the light spilling from the room behind him. His expression was unreadable but there was something in his eyes – they were blazing with a chilling intensity that made my skin

hovering above the next step

words failing me as I

eyes. “No need to lie, Lyla. I can smell your fear from here.”

The room felt suddenly smaller, as Xander took a step towards me. My mind raced, looking

mean to listen,” I whispered “I just… I was coming downstairs and I

your voices

I noticed something else. His knuckles were

the blood that worried me. It was how I felt at that moment I

me staring and wiped a hand across my face, smearing the blood but doing little

to clean up,” he said in an apologetic

overhead and seen Xander beat up his dad – like his dad… and I was here, watching the blood dry on his hands, not minding.

another word, Xander brushed past me and headed to his room. I exhaled slowly, trying to shake off what I had just witnessed and started for the living room.

conversation had taken place, it was still slightly ajar revealing a sight that sent a

blood dripping from his nose, staining the front of his shirt. His lips were swollen, and his face was twisted in pain and anger. But what made me stop cold was the way he looked at me. His eyes were filled

he blamed me for what had happened like I

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