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.”

wondered, getting

before, Mr Dupree continued “You’re veering off course

shot back.

“In control? But you’re lodged between her legs all the time. You’re still her slave,

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 idea what it meant.

someone crashed against a piece of furniture, followed by someone being hit and then a grunt of muffled pain before silence. My heart pounded in my

50 Lyla’s discovery….

Someone was coming.

to move quickly up the stairs before the door opened but

hide Lyla,” Xander called out. “I know you were listening”

my mind. scrambling for an excuse, an explanation anything

unreadable but there was something in his eyes – they were blazing with a chilling intensity that

mid–step, my foot hovering above

failing me as I took a step back, instinctively, retreating towards

faint smile though it didn’t reach his eyes. “No need to lie, Lyla. I can smell your

heart thudding wildly in my chest. The room felt suddenly smaller, as Xander took a step towards me. My mind raced, looking for something anything to

whispered “I just… I was coming downstairs and I heard… were loud; I couldn’t help but

your voices

faded as he looked at me. That was when I noticed something else. His knuckles were

afraid. It wasn’t the sight of the blood that worried me. It was how I felt at that moment I felt calm, and comfortable, as

smearing the blood but doing little to hide it. He sighed softly, his shoulders loosening from the

clean up,” he said in an apologetic tone. “And we’ll go!”

should have been scared, I told myself. By all accounts, this was a terrible situation, I had just overhead and seen

his room. I exhaled slowly, trying to shake off

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

face was twisted in pain and anger. But what made me stop cold was

was as if he blamed me for what had happened like I was the reason

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