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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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 trees. They were snarling and growling, their eyes glowing red as they advanced

US.

to seeing. They looked bigger, with gaunt bodies radiating an energy

her. Her lips curled back in

they began

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

across its face in a blur that was too fast for someone like me to follow.

Nymeris charged at them, using her tail to wrap one of them, sending it flying into a nearby tree. As its spine shattered, she closed her jaw around the skull

Ferals hesitated, their 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 met

a whirlwind of claws ripping through flesh, her jaws snapping down with bone–crushing force. One Feral tried to flank her, but she

was fierce and brutal, with Nymeris suffering minimal bites and scratches here and there, but her strength was

at my father’s funeral, and since he was a Lycan, I thought he was fast, but watching

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was silent

fluidity of

she went for its face,

was done – the Trinax lay on the

nothing happened. She sighed as the tension left her body. Not a single

horror as I stared at the dead bodies of all the Ferals. I just did

we reached the tree line, my breath hitched. There, close to the base of one of the trees, was a growing pile of decaying

the pile and stood back, her chest heaving. I stared at the gruesome sight, my mind racing. How many had Nymeris

no warriors stationed,” Nymeris’s voice filtered into my mind. “So, for

been fighting

the Warriors, not that they’d be

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

what better person than me? We need to head

now.”

just stood there, still trying to understand everything, when the sound