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

56 Shadows of doubt…

Miriam (Nanny)

It’s been three days since Lyla left the house.

I sat at the coffee shop, staring at my phone, with a deep frown etched on my face. The Café was unusually quiet for a Saturday afternoon, making my thoughts louder.

At first, I had been so angry, so pissed at the girl, blaming myself for spoiling her and always letting her have her way and I had promised myself that I wouldn’t reach out, that when she was done with her tantrums, she would find her way home.

But I was wrong.

I had mustered the courage to call Xander the second day after she left home after going to school and was told that she hadn’t shown up since the previous day. I found his number in one of Lyla’s contact books and had called his line the entire day.

The more I called and it went unanswered, the more unease crept up my spine. Something wasn’t right. Xander was the only friend Lyla had. I was sure of that and since they were dating, she was most likely to end up in his house.

Xander finally took my call on the third day and I had clearly heard Lyla’s voice in the

background. She had shouted something to me, calling out my name but I had been so fixated on Xander that I didn’t hear the words.

When I asked Xander what the problem was and why she was shouting, he brushed it off, laughing and saying they were just playing. Even when I had insisted on speaking with Lyla, his tone had grown cold and he claimed, Lyla didn’t want to talk and had ended the call before 1 could protest.

I didn’t know where they lived. There was no address in any of Lyla’s books and I couldn’t involve the human police. They didn’t take things like this seriously. Something was wrong, I could feel

it.

Today, I found myself staring at my phone again, Alpha Logan’s number displayed on the screen. My fingers hovering over the call button. I’ve thought about calling him several times but the risk was too great.

With the way the Lycan Leader was still looking for Lyla, despite the many months that had passed since she left the pack, going as far as sending Panther trackers, he might have been monitoring her father’s calls. One wrong move could put Lyla in even greater danger.

My thumb hovered over the dial button, my heart racing but at the last second, I turned the phone off and set it aside. No, calling Logan wasn’t the answer.

As I sat there still lost in thoughts, my mind wandered to the strange marking I had noticed on her back a few months ago. Those three stars line up perfectly on her spine – a mark I was most certain had not been there before.

since she was a pup, dressed her, tended to her every

of

I seen that mark.

gnawing at my mind. My years of experience with the spiritual had taught

on her spine

fate.

–

my c That boy Xander from the first day I met him, gave me an odd feeling, the aura he had carried with him was darker even in

being a super protective carer. But after meeting his

into something else and had changed my Lyla totally

the scars of abandonment at an age where the love and support of a parent to a child was paramount.

mattered.

anything to be with someone who showed her even the slightest kindness

Maybe, it was time I took up my role in Lyla’s life. I’ve been weighed by guilt from the past, so much

I was done.

closed my office before walking up to the front counter where Sarah, one of

heading out, Sarah, I informed with a smile. “But I don’t know how long I’ll be, if I’m not back. by evening, go ahead and close up for the day, okay?”

it Lyla? Is she alright? I’ve been meaning to ask why she hasn’t come in for a few days now

with a tight smile. “And everything is fine, just some personal business I need to take care of. I’m

a dimpled smile. “Matt will be here soon to start his shift, there’ll be more than enough hands.

“I

thought so too. See you later, I waved at her already moving to the door.

racing just thinking of my next move. There was only

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of doubt…

hadn’t visited in

the place that taught me everything I know and shaped me into the person I became and just when I was to attain leadership, I ruined it all… although, I wouldn’t consider the outcome as a mistake, because it was the best

arrived at