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

64 The turn…

Ramsey

Two years later. 1

The Pack Hospital’s light shone brightly on me where I sat motionless in the reception area, my legs spread out in front of me, staring blankly at the floor.

My clothes were stained with blood, and dark red streaks that had long since dried but still smelled fresh in the air around me. My fingers wrapped tightly around a necklace which I clutched like a lifeline its pendant warming against my palm, a stark difference to the cold that had settled in my chest.

Around me, Pack Doctors and Nurses including Healers rushed in and out of the operating rooms, their faces tensed with fear… I couldn’t blame them, they had two lives to save.

Two operations were happening at the same time. Two lives hanging by a thread. Alpha Logan, Alpha of the Blue Ridge Pack was in one of the rooms fighting for his life. And in the other room, my grandfather, Elder Eldric, was the only family I had left. When I held him in my arms after the attack, I thought he was dead. 1

He’d been motionless, with blood gushing out from one side of his throat. I grew up with my grandfather, we didn’t agree on a lot of things but I love him. He was the man who shaped me into whom I am today. He had swallowed his pain and fought hard after losing his mate, so I wouldn’t be alone anymore.

He was the same man who pushed me out of the way, hours ago, and had taken the Feral’s bite it should be me on that operating table and not him.

We were on our way back from the Annual Moon Goddess Worshipping Ceremony at Golden Moon Pack and were just outside the borders of the White Moon Mountain region when a dozen Feral Wolves suddenly sprung out from the forest and attacked.

They had easily overpowered the hundred warriors that had gone with us, and injured three Alphas renowned for their fighting skills, including Alpha Logan who was a top–skilled Alpha

Warrior.

I had watched as the warriors dropped dead, how six elders, have been killed with such swiftness that I didn’t see. I had almost died, too, if my grandfather had not pushed me out of the way and taken the bite for me.

Alpha Logan had jumped in to save him from the Ferals and had equally been defeated. The Ferals, after that, didn’t attack me… they all regrouped, and stared at me for a few minutes before they headed back to the bushes from where they had emerged.

I glanced up briefly, my gaze drifting to Alpha Logan’s wife, Luna Vanessa and her daughter, Clarissa. They sat huddled at one corner of the reception, their eyes red and swollen, tears streaming silently down their faces.

The loss of a mate was not the worst thing that can happen to anyone – it is being helpless.

to do hour to help and if your mate would ever

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alive.

if they were the only thing keeping each other from shattering completely. My heart clenched at

his face full of concern. “You need to go home and get cleaned up. You can’t stay here like this, if the people see you in this state, they’ll worry. It’s already enough that the entire country is in

here and tell you as soon as

not in my shoes,” I said quietly. “I have failed. everyone… a hundred warriors killed, six elders dead and three Alphas wounded. Alpha Logan is barely alive and if anything should happen to him… they will never forgive me. This is my fault.” “It is not, Alpha!” Lenny sighed drawing closer to me. “No one had anticipated the Ferals. The last time we saw one was four years

travelled two days after the ceremony, they all arrived at their packs safely. I have made a lot of children fatherless, Lenny…”

up and offer a word of comfort to the bereaved – the families of the

him. “I too, I’m hurting… let’s just hurt today… or at

My muscles were stiff from sitting for so long but I barely felt the discomfort. I couldn’t leave. Not until I knew. Not until

rose to my feet for the first time, my heart pounding violently in my chest as the doctor walked out, his face was pale, his eyes were downcast and I knew from his expression before

look too many times

rd se

collapsed to the ground in sobs, her daughter clinging to her. I felt the grief wash over me but it didn’t settle. It

but I just nodded slowly. There were no

on cue, another pack doctor emerged from the second operating room. There was a

his

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informed me. “The surgery was successful though recovery will take time but he’s fine

without a word, I turned and walked out of the hospital into the cold night

air.

closed behind me, I changed into my

The wind whipped against my fur, and the world around me blurred as my

earth.

burned. It was

my morning when I finally started back to the pack house still clutching the necklace. Waiting for me at the entrance of the pack house were several clders, including Elder Mira, all wearing