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

137 If only looks could kill…

Lyla

I jolted awake.

My body was trembling as I gasped for air, my vision was blurry and my head pounded.

Nathan had been trying to pull me from Xander before someone whose face I couldn’t see tackled him to the ground. In my desperation in between Xander pulling me and Nathan

struggling. I had felt that familiar anger.

–

It started small, the thought that Nathan would be hurt because of me had burned through my heart, coursing through my veins…the last thing I remember was screaming..

But now,

Nathan was perched on the edge of my bed, in an unfamiliar room. Nanny hovered at the foot of the bed – her eyes were swollen and she was trying to hold back her tears. The High Priestess was there too, there was a wispy smile on her face and Ramsey….

He was leaning at the wall, our eyes met and held….

“Oh, gods!” Nanny cried as she ran to me engulfing me in a hug. “You’re back… oh… I was terrified. I feared the worse, oh…”

My body still felt faint, and my vision was unstable but I allowed her to rock me. There was no Xander and I wasn’t in that old house. It must have been a dream, only it was too vivid.

“What happened?” I asked weakly.

“You fell into some sort of sleeping state for a week and a few days now. Do you still remember that cleansing that was supposed to be done at the White Lake?” The priestess asked.

I stared at her blankly, trying to sort through my memory before I remembered and nodded weakdy.

from there. We’ve been trying to bring you back, I didn’t think this would.

awkwardly next to the priestess scratching his head and then he started bleeding

bleeding…” I said slowly

was that dear? Nanny pulled back “Did you say

licked my dry lips

blood. They hovered over

vision to swim.

the pack healer to see if he has some healing herbs. We need

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looks erudia

to help Lyla. I told you to pull back if it was too much?

his hand. “The bleeding

nosebleeds occasionally?

is different. C’mon, let’s go,

his gaze darting back

his shoulder. “You’ll do her no good in

eyes lingering on me momentarily before following the

room with Nathan in

at the wall and our gaze met again. There was no awkwardness between us, just quiet tension. He moved away from the wall and moved closer to the bed, crouching beside me, as

searched mine.

you okay?” he asked softly.

nodded weakly, my hands clutching the blanket tightly. My mind still felt foggy, my

scattered.

touch was warm and gentle as he rubbed soothing circles against

comes back? It had felt so real. He locked me up and wanted to use me for something before Nathan showed up. I’m

being a catalyst to use your power but she doesn’t know what’s making you do all of that

with her. I closed my eyes for a minute, focusing, wondering if I could hear it speak but silence as