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

197 A second reunion…

Lyla

She trailed off sniffing back tears. “That was why I was willing to let you call another woman, mother. Because I am nothing, Lyla. I had nothing to me. No parents, no inheritance, I wasn’t affiliated to any pack and oh, your father…” she broke down in tears. “He loved you, Lyla. Everything he did, all the times be mistreated you he did it because he had to appease his mate, but your dad, never hated you!”

“No!” I shook my head as tears filled my eyes again. “Don’t try to defend him because you loved him. I don’t want to hear. I don’t want to hear anything again.

I turned and started walking away.

“Lyla!” she ran after me. “Please you cannot leave like this.”

I turned to face her, my heart breaking over and over. “I never want to see you again, Nanny. Do you hear away from me.”

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Her hands clasped tightly around mine. “Lyla, please. Don’t do this. Don’t shut me out.”

But I had already turned away and continued towards the temple gates, my heart was heavy anger and filled with pain.

with

As I left the courtyard, I heard her crying and it broke my heart. But I didn’t look back. I couldn’t.

After I left the Moon Temple, I turned off my phone, refusing to take calls from Nanny or Nathan. I wanted to be alone. I wandered through Golden Gates Pack, trying to distract my thoughts.

I was still trying to figure out how to leave, perhaps, when I am calm, I could ask Nanny to help me secure passage from here back to the human world. And this time it would be final. I had nothing left here.

I found myself at a quiet café overlooking a mountain and took a space on the tables outside. The wing was tugging at my hair and clothes. The sun was setting, and everything was the same except me.

For the first time since confronting Nanny, I allowed myself to breathe. I sank into the chair and stared out at the horizon.

The tears came again, but this time, they were quiet. I didn’t sob or scream, and I didn’t bother about the strange looks of people passing. I just let them fall.

I whispered to the wind. “Why did it have to be like this?”

about everything I had lost and everything I had learned. It felt like i my entire world was crumbling around me,

sun dip below the towering mountains, as dusk began to set. I made a silent vow to

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forward. I didn’t know how or where, but I would. Because no matter how broke I felt now, I refused

was back to my hotel room at Blue Ridge. I was sprawled across the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling as my mind replayed the events of the day. I couldn’t even cry anymore.

for my wedding, dreaming of a future that now felt like I had. dreamt it. I thought I had finally found a place where I could set my roots. Now everything was in ruins. My engagement is broken – Nathan should be preparing for his wedding night with Clarissa now. My identity was in shreds and I couldn’t even begin to process the fact that the woman I’d trusted my whole life – Nanny was my mother. How

pushed myself up. I couldn’t stay here, drowning in my thoughts. Maybe a run would help. Usually, I am

Moon, our bond had gone silent and I wasn’t sure if I wanted her especially as she was being hunted.

out, afraid of

to my suitcase, rummaging through it for my running clothes. Finally, I located it. As I wanted to pull out a pair of leggings, an envelope fluttered to the floor. I froze staring at it.

his death. I stared at it for a few more seconds, before picking it up, turning it over and over in my hand. For a moment, I considered opening it.

letter. What if there was something that could give me clarity in this chaos? But as my fingers

everything that had happened today, did I really want

to the mix?

a pair of joggers and a loose sweatshirt, grabbed a pair of dark sunglasses to hide my identity the last thing I needed was to be recognized by pack members who’d attended what should have been my wedding – and

evening air was cool against my skin as I jogged through the pack’s park. It was surprisingly quiet with a few people jogging or

the hotel room, my legs were sore but my head

came out, wrapped only in a

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my chest was still there. I’d just finished drying off and was reaching

was already grumbling with the anticipation of the food I’d ordered. I ran my finger through my

hair.

outside the…” The words died in my throat as I saw the person at my

turning white. I tried to remember what the clock had said when I came out of

silence was as thick as tension and he looked as though he hadn’t slept in