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

105 Funeral disrupted…

105 Funeral disrupted…

Lylan

The Funeral ceremony finally ended; it was now time to bury my father.

We moved out of the hall, following the procession of mourners as we made our way to the Pack’s sacred burial ground an area reserved for all the Alphas who had served the Blue Ridge

Pack.

I and Nathan walked together. I allowed him to clasp my hand in his, feeling comforted by his warmth and fighting the urge to sneak a peek at Ramsey and Cassidy who also joined the mourning procession but was behind us. Finally, we arrived at the designated area and gathered around it.

As they lowered my father to the ground, the reality of his death struck me. Watching him, lifeless – not moving, not saying a word to me, not glaring at me in his usual manner… it dawned on me that my father had truly died.

I felt my chest tighten as a sob escaped my lips. I clutched at my chest, trying to hold myself together but it was no use. The tightness was making it hard for me to breathe as my eyes watered. I fought it… I didn’t want to cry over a man who had been distant from me for years.

A man who had always been a shadow in my life rather than a guiding light… he didn’t deserve my tears. I didn’t want to miss him.

“Hey,” Nathan called out softly to me, as his strong arms encircled me. “It’s okay, Lyla… it’s okay. to feel, he murmured.

“No!” my chest heaved as I fought to hold back the tears. “He he was not a good father…” I raved, my breath coming in short, ragged gasps.

I opened my mouth, trying to speak, but only a soft, strangled sound escaped me. My eyes. welled up with tears again, threatening to spill over but I blinked furiously, determined not to let

them fall.

“Maybe he wasn’t,” Nathan said softly “But it’s okay to miss the people you love and I know you’ll miss your dad. Allow yourself to feel, Lyla… it’s okay…”

hand over my heart, feeling the rapid pounding as I struggled to regain my composure, my body shaking with the effort to contain my grief. Suddenly, opposite me, Clarissa burst out

“Dad….” She wailed.

it for

was whispering comforting words to me, his deep voice grounding me but I could barely hear him over

the burial finished and the crowd began

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buried father. Finally, alone, I lifted my head from Nathan’s shoulder, noting the dampness caused by

sorry,” I

steel after all, he teased me lightly, “Crying is good sometimes, Ly… You’ll feel better now and hopefully, those vicious Alphas would not try to pin your father’s death on

you.”

chuckled dryly. “Because of my

cleared it up. Come now… let’s get you

walked towards the pack house, there were a handful of people in front of us. Some Blue Ridge Pack Elders, our guests and I even spotted Ramsey and Cassidy walking side by side. They

bone. The sound had come from the direction of the funeral hall, so most of us walking towards it, paused, trying to understand

that?” Alpha Renwick muttered from the side.

front suddenly rushed towards us, his expression going grim.

started running from the direction of the funeral hall. Mostly Omegas and

– a normal response to danger. A pack warrior weaved his way through the running

Feral wolves outside

pounding violently in my chest, it was so loud that I could hear it. My vision.

have

scared Mr Dupree would come to my dreams. The constant scare that came from having zero social life, because I was scared Xander, would track me down one of these

away, distorted as though it

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