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

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A while later, after I was done bathing and cleaning up, I was lounging in my room pretending to read a book while I was trying to remember how I got to the forest. Was I sleepwalking? Did someone take me there?

Was it Ramsey or Cassidy? Did they leave me there so I would be attacked by a Feral and killed? I shook my head at the thought. Maybe Cassidy but definitely not Ramsey but I was ruling Cassidy out because Ramsey had kept a leash on her.

Since I was moved from White Lake to White Moon, he hasn’t come to see me but I’d heard the maids gossiping about how he and Cassidy were always together and that they cannot wait for them to get married so everyone can be at case.

Also, there were warriors stationed at the wing where I was staying, maybe they saw something? I’ll have to ask them later.

A knock at the door roused me from softer but still tinged with concern.

“Can I come in?” he asked.”

I give him a funny look. “Of course.”

my thoughts. Nathan poked his head in, his expression

He closed the door behind him and sat on the edge of my bed, his eyes searching mine. “I just came from Nanny’s room and I apologized for how I sounded earlier. I was just so scared… shitless scared. No one had seen you, the warriors placed outside your wing said they didn’t see you leave but couldn’t account for the forty–five seconds they left their post for the next shift to come on. Still are you fine? Did you really go for a walk?”

I

“Yes!” I lied smiling brightly “And you know how clumsy I can get. Don’t blame, Nanny, she tried to force me to go back but I was too stubborn. Have you seen her wolf before?” I asked in an attempt to change the topic.

“Yes!” he chuckled. “Sigma wolves are rare sights. I saw it once when I was a teen. She had gone for a run with your father but Alpha Logan made me promise him that I would not say anything. about it since everyone knew she was an Omega back then.”

“Why?” I asked, “Being a Sigma wolf is not a taboo is it?”

“Oh!” Nathan sighed, clamping a hand over his mouth, “I shouldn’t have said that

“Say what?” I eyed him strangely.

“Sigma wolves do not live in packs, they live in Moon Temples. People say they’re messengers of the Moon Goddess herself and live all their lives serving her. They’re not allowed to mate or do any other thing aside from that. Didn’t you know?”

News to me.

“No!” I shook my head “She never mentioned it.”

“That’s because she might get into trouble. Although, I never asked but I think Nanny must have run away from the Moon Temple or something like that. I’m sure my dad knows what really

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him and your dad argue a lot of times about her staying at Blue Ridge but that’s all in the past now. Seems she finally reunited with her

information for me to digest. Nanny has been by my side for most of my life but I didn’t know anything about her. I’ve never asked questions

“Nath!”

“Yes, baby,”

selfish?” I

“Hard truth or an easy one?”

hard. “Hard truth.”

lot. You’re never present. Like you might be friends

frowned. “People interest me

You lived with her

know that.”

lips, sifting through my memory bank but I came up

know but that doesn’t

you describe her in

about her?”

“She’s kind, observant, umm…loves coffee, loves me a lot… umm…” swallowed hard, realizing I was

mom had been so angry, she threw grounded coffee at her. She loves to run every morning, back then in the pack, she’d run as far as the human border to get

she is…”

She must have told you, I’m sure. You know how I am, I’m always careful with asking questions because I don’t want

are other nice things about her too and about me

hands through my hair. “I really have

for so long that you’re never aware of anything that goes on around you. It’s like you’ve built layers of walls… nothing goes in and nothing comes out but, I

terrible person and now you mention it,

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died and nothing else. I can’t even remember. Clarissa’s birthday, Gosh!” I chuckled

you. Lyla…” he drew closer to me and held my hands “You’re an amazing person. Fine, you don’t know a lot of things about anything but you’re kind, you’re strong…stronger than you know, intelligent but not too smart…” he said the last bit with amusement in his eyes “But it can be improved upon when you try to notice more. You mother everything you see… you were my mother all the time we spent as teens before I had to

badger me constantly about eating, exercising and things I had no business in doing

you can get better at is to trust me and give me your heart completely. I won’t hurt you, Lyla…I’d rather kill myself than do anything that makes

you cry.”

tears “You’re going to make

me. Slowly, his hand works its way beneath my clothes, stopping to

his mouth.

gently pushed the straps on my shoulders, placing open–mouthed kisses on my skin.

murmured with a ragged