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

193 Get pregnant, Lyla!

Nathan.

“No, I am not,” I said with a huge smile. “Anyways, that’s none of your business. This oath is simply reassuring me that you will keep your promise and won’t hurt Lyla.”

“So, you will marry Clarissa?” Luna Vanessa asked staring at me with uncertainty.

Ragnar howled within me but I pushed down the pain and nodded. “Yes, I will.”

Alpha Gab rose from his seat again, his expression was grim. “If we agree to this, there’s no turning back. You cannot suddenly divorce Clarissa…I hope this is not a ploy to bring

“It’s really none of your business Gab,” I looked at him straight in his eyes. “All of you here have mistresses and a lot of stray pups outside your mate and marriage but you don’t see me questioning you.”

The men shifted uncomfortably, clearing their throats.

“So you’re still going to keep Lyla?” Luna Vanessa asked. She sounded offended.

“Again!” I turned to her. “I do not answer to you, Luna Vanessa. Do you want me to marry your daughter or not?”

“If we agree to this,” Alpha Regan murmured. “There’s no turning back. You’ll be held. accountable for every decision, every failure. Are you prepared for that?”

I nodded. “I am.”

Alpha Regan studied me for a long moment before extending his hand. “Then I agree.”

He rose from his seat and walked towards me, when he came to stand in front of me, he brought out his pen knife and slashed it across his palm. Pouring the blood at my feet.

“I, Alpha Regan Skye, Alpha to Western Hill Pack and on behalf of the Alpha council of the west of which I am leader, on this day swear allegiance to Alpha Nathan Tanner. I agree that the decisions taken regarding Lyla Woodland stand and I will not go back on my word under any circumstance. I pledge this in front of the Alphas, may the Moon. Goddess accept my allegiance.”

I grasped his hand firmly. One by one the other Alphas hesitated before following suit, each one reluctantly pledging their allegiance.

by reluctant allies, I felt a strange sense of triumph. I had sacrificed my happiness for Lyla’s

do what they want,

Get pregnant

else, Luan Vanessa might demand. But I had some

seek to strip Lyla of her title as the daughter of an Alpha completely, thereby giving her an ordinary status. This was the only way to protect her. In the bid to do so, I had gained

to silence it. Did they want a political game? I’d given

worse, my fate was now intertwined with that of every pack in the South and West. I will take over the

they

myself and also talk to Lyla!”

of the hall.

The Alphas nodded.

I walked to my car instead. In a few minutes, I was at home. I bounded

with used tissues damp with her tears. I stood there for a moment, not knowing what

out eventually.

ended like

“C’mon, Lyla, your father didn’t live in denial of your birth. You’re his daughter and he made

swollen and red from crying. “As much as I don’t want

time…”

tears but she hastily wiped them

did I mean to you,

was ambiguous.

pregnant.

you know I

truth. I even killed someone… who else knows that Nanny is my

you mo- I mean, Luna Vanessa and maybe Clarissa and Ramsey recently. He only found out because of your resemblance with Nanny. Else that, no one else

went back

before I asked again. “What’s

to give me a hard stare as if to say, are

my home. You’re getting married to Clarissa… I can’t stay with