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

187 The truth of her birth I

Lyla

I’ve been called wolfless, a deviant, and every other thing all my life but never a murderer!

The word rang a hateful echo that refused to fade. My hands trembled as I clenched them into fists at my sides.

“I’ve had enough!” I cried out. My tears were flowing freely now, streaking down my calling me a murderer. I haven’t killed anyone. I am not a monster”

mother–or the

Woman

face. “Stop

I gazed at Luna Vanessa, my who I had always believed was my mother. Her expression was concealed with disdain, and her lips were pressed into a thin line. But I

wanted to try one last time. Maybe she had been so angry and had spoken out of it.

“Are you even my mother? You’ve hated me for as long as I can remember. Why? What did I ever do to you to deserve this?”

Nathan stiffened, his hand immediately reaching for me. “This isn’t the time or place, Lyla. We just need to get the joining ceremony back on track, that’s all.”

“No!” I shouted, shaking his hand off mine, as my voice rose with desperation. “We’re going to talk about this now. Tell me the truth,” I turned to Luna Vanessa again.

She rose from her seat and sauntered to where I was. Despite her unbelievably big stomach, she moved with the gait and speed of a wild cat.

“No!” she spat when she reached me. “I never wanted you in the first place. I am not your mother. I never was and I never wanted to be.

Her words hit me like physical blows, each one stealing my breath. I staggered backwards, my wedding dress rustling against the ground. “What are you saying?” I whispered. “You’re lying… you must be lying”

“Your father,” she continued, her voice dripping with bitterness, “Was on a mission when he met her met her,” She laughed, but the sound held no warmth. “He couldn’t keep it in his pants, and you were the result of that affair.

“That’s not true,” tears seeped into my mouth. I turned to face Nathan. “She’s lying right?” Nathan avoided my gaze, looking elsewhere but at me. I turned and scanned the faces of the Alphas in the room, all of them had their gazes elsewhere but me.

They all knew.

“Wow!” I laughed, hysterics already teasing at the edge of my sanity. “You all knew? Even you, Nathan. You knew I was Alpha Logan’s bastard and no one was kind enough to tell me. All these years, I’ve thought something was wrong

With me, that I was the problem, that it was my i

existence has

years because of your father. She showed up at

TL

LIJ.

of

keep my marriage, my home and my mate because I loved Logan so much that I was willing to raise another woman’s child and let you

could have insisted. Why did you make it life’s mission to punish me all these years? Two adults came together and

turned into hot coals as she neared me. “You killed my son, Lyla Woodland, a tear rolled down her check. “You took my joy

sighed. “It was a mistake. None of it was her fault. She just had her wolf, she was out of control.”

as I tried to understand what they were talking

about.

had a wolf?” I walked to Beta Jeremy. “I don’t understand,

me, riveting my attention to him. “Listen here, Leila… when you were 14, you got your wolf and went on a rage. You

from my

Vanessa snickered. “Your witch of a mother

rose to his feet. “That’s enough, you guys. You’re confusing her all the more.

do not have that luxury, Alpha Nathan, one of the men said with a satisfied smirk. “Nine years ago, when Lyla killed the Alpha heir and the rightful heir to the throne. Logan was devasted, and so was his wife, our sister. As stated in our laws, she was to be killed and sentenced

stopped. “But Lyla’s mother begged and managed to convince Logan somehow to spare his daughter’s life. Of course, he loved

Clarissa!” Luna Vanessa

is presided by the packs of the West. The presiding Alpha

no sign of another one coming because, after Todd’s birth, the pack doctors instructed her never to get pregnant again due to complications, an

the Alpha heir would wed, Clarissa, in other to

of her birth

the Alpha title in the family. Seven years passed and the treaty was not talked about or

Alpha Logan, and respectfully, I wasn’t informed. I have no intentions

be with her.

as I forced the words out ignoring Nathan.

Is she

all this time, Lyla,” she paused as if waiting for the words

“Miriam?” I repeated.

Lyla… the slut Sigma

from me.”

My knees

to the floor, unable to hold myself up any longer. Nanny the woman who had raised me, cared for

mother.

heart kept breaking with equal parts heartbreak and rage. “How could you let me live in this

this way. She agreed to stay quiet, to be your disrupt

she didn’t