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…”

lied and has been lying to me

LISTENING…” Nathan growled. His eyes were

anger.

I cut him off, I was shouting now. “What I can’t understand you is why you’re dragging an innocent

let me explain,” he sighed. There was desperation and exhaustion on his face. “If there’s a baby- our baby

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

staring at me in exasperation.

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104 Baby mama

“So, I just pop out a child and boom,

His

but I love

to be your mate? Your Luna? And for what? To be your loophole? I won’t repeat Nanny’s mistakes, Nathan. I refuse to become just another

mama.”

me! It’s about us. About protecting what

have.”

“I agree you’ve been a good friend, you even stayed in the dungeon for four years for me and I am eternally grateful for this.

that and has been

my sister!” I yelled. “We might not see eye to eye on a lot of things but I know pretty well that this would mean so much to her. Besides, your dad doesn’t like me, no one is in support of our joining. I’ve had enough drama in my

Moon’s sake, Lyla!” he cried with anguish. “Why can’t you see reason? Clarissa is a beautiful. woman, I’m sure a lot of men would die to have her. I am trying to protect what we have. This is the

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

brows clouded with annoyance. “No, I’m not!”