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

194 Baby mama…

I’m sure if Nathan had told me he was an alien, a vampire, or even some wizard and had

magically produced a wand and was waving it at me, it wouldn’t have been as shocking as what he was asking me to do..

I stared at him, with my mouth hanging open in disbelief. The words he’d just spoken suspended between us like bad breath.

“You’re asking me to do WHAT?” I demanded, my voice rising with the sheer ridiculousness.

He sighed heavily, running a hand through his hair. “We would do anything to be with each other right? Isn’t that what this is all about? I want to be with you and I’m trying to suggest….”

“To suggest?” I repeated staring at him. “What exactly do you take me for, Nathan? Some kind of baby–making machine? Is that all I am you? Do you think the solution to all our problems is for me to get pregnant? I don’t even know who I am anymore, Nathan. My identity is in a mess, it’s jumbled…”

“Lyla, just listen…”

“NO!” I thundered po

my index finger at him. “You listen! One minute, my mother the woman whom I’ve called mother all my life was rejecting me telling me that I destroyed her family and her home and I was a child born out of wedlock. The next, another group of deranged men or Alphas or whatever it is telling me that I am a murderer and you’re here asking me to get pregnant? Are you okay?”

“Stop being sentimental for once in your life, Lyla. You’re an adult…”

pass into swallowing down surprises like this? Realizing that everybody around me has lied and has been lying to me all my life. Do

YOU’RE NOT LISTENING…” Nathan growled. His

anger.

“What I can’t understand you is why you’re dragging an innocent child into this mess.

there’s a baby- our baby before the coronation, I can reject Clarissa. I can marry you

beat of my pounding heart in my cars. and then Nathan’s filled with agitation. Then, I doubled as laughter bubbled up my throat. It was loud

there staring

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104 Baby mama

just pop out

His

“It’s not like that, Lyla, I am not trying to use the baby as a means to an end but I love you that much and this is the only way

and carry it on my shoulders because I want to be your mate? Your Luna? And for what?

mama.”

just about me! It’s

have.”

been a good friend, you even stayed in the dungeon for four years for me and I am eternally grateful for this. But have you thought about all the people that might be hurt

first, Lyla? Everyone does that and

a lot of things but I know pretty well that this would mean so much to her. Besides, your dad doesn’t

cried with anguish. “Why can’t you see reason? Clarissa is a beautiful. woman, I’m sure a lot of men would die

“No, Nathan. This isn’t right. This isn’t about us and this is not the only way.

brows clouded with annoyance. “No, I’m