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

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Lyla (Nymeris) POV

Suddenly, Nymeris’s cars twitched. A faint sound a distant scratching had caught her

attention.

Without hesitation, she turned and started running in the direction of the scratch. She tore through the forest with a speed that felt both exhilarating and terrifying. As she ran, trees blurred past us, the wind howling in my ears, and then it was as if I had done

this before.

Fragments of memories flooded into my mind.

–

I saw myself two nights ago, transforming into Nymeris and racing through the forest, my heart pounding with adrenaline. And then, in the end, lying down at the same clearing where she had finally manifested.

My eyes widened in surprise literally as the realization hit me. All those mornings I had woken up in the forest looking like I had just survived a fight, it was because I had come for a run. How was this possible? How could Nymeris transform without me knowing?

“Nymeris,” I called her in my mind, trying to make sense of it. “Those mornings in the forest… it was you?”

“I tried to tell you,” she said in between gasps. “I had no other choice but to do it. Lives had to be saved.”

“Lives? What do you mean? What are you talking about? How can you transform without me knowing? Like there’s no vivid collection except waking up in the morning and finding myself lying now in the forest with my clothes dirtied and scratches all over my arms. Why didn’t you say something, at least? Do you know how worried I was?”

“Because I couldn’t communicate with you, Lyla. For some reason, I was able to act independently of you. Since you are my host, it felt as if I could make decisions to rouse you and transform, and before you ask me, I don’t have an explanation for that.”

“But…”

My question was cut short as Nymeris burst into a clearing. The light from the Moon was fading, and dawn was slowly streaking into the sky. Nymeris paused, her eyes searching the tall trees barely illuminated by the light from the moon.

Her senses were sharpened, and her body tensed immediately as their scent wafted up to us. I gasped with shock when I saw them – Feral wolves, slowing coming out of the

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gasped with shock when I saw them – Feral wolves, slowing coming out

US.

an energy that

back in a

they began to

Feral lunged with its claws outstretched, but Nymeris was faster. She sidestepped the attack as easily as one would a pup and then sank her teeth – she twisted mid–air, her powerful jaws closing around its throat, snapping its bones with ease. A single shake and

was too fast for someone like me to follow. Blood sprayed the ground as the Feral let out

flying into a nearby tree. As its spine

red eyes flickering with uncertainty. For at moment, I honestly thought they would retreat, but they charged head–on, all of them at once. Nymeria

ripping through flesh, her jaws snapping down with bone–crushing force. One Feral tried to flank her,

bite. The battle was fierce and brutal, with Nymeris suffering minimal bites and scratches here and there, but her strength was unmatched. Her movements were

funeral, and since he was a Lycan, I thought he

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Ferals fell until the clearing was

her ears picked up another faint scratch, and with the fluidity of an Eagle, she leapt onto

Trinax to the ground. Immediately, she went for its face, squashing its irregular, almost obscure face with both hindlegs

minutes, she was done – the Trinax lay on the ground,

scanned the clearing silently as if she was expecting more Ferals, but after a few minutes, nothing happened. She sighed as the tension left her body. Not a single

at the dead bodies of all the Ferals. I just did that – me and my wolf. How I had gone from an innocent girl to a mass killer in seconds

the clearing. As we reached the tree line, my breath

the pile and stood back, her chest heaving. I stared at the gruesome

are no warriors stationed,” Nymeris’s voice filtered into my

been fighting them?” I

notice of the Warriors, not that they’d be

still trying to wrap my head around everything. “So, all those nights when you transformed without my knowledge, all those wounds and body aches

Someone had to do it, and what better person than

now.”

understand everything, when the sound of