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 more confused.

before, Mr Dupree continued “You’re veering off

back. “I know what

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

sense, and yet a chilling recognition ran down my spine it was as if I

furniture, followed by someone being hit and then a grunt of muffled pain before silence. My heart pounded in my ears, my instincts screaming at me to run… suddenly, I heard footsteps

50 Lyla’s discovery….

Someone was coming.

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

Lyla,” Xander called out.

mind. scrambling for an excuse, an explanation anything to make sense of what I’d

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

paused mid–step, my foot hovering above

wasn’t… I… I didn’t mean to…” I stammered, words failing me

eyes. “No

smaller, as Xander took a step towards me. My

listen,” I whispered “I just… I was coming downstairs and I heard… were loud; I couldn’t

your voices

That was when I noticed something else. His knuckles were bruised

I wasn’t afraid. It wasn’t the sight of the blood that worried me. It was how I felt at

must have noticed me staring and wiped a hand across my face, smearing the blood but doing little to hide it.

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

a terrible situation, I had just overhead and seen Xander beat up his dad – like his dad… and I was here, watching the blood dry

trying to shake off what

it was

twisted in pain and anger. But what made me

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

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