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

203 Dangerous dawn…

Lyla

Despite his reassurance, I couldn’t shake my unease. I dressed quickly, already envisioning the entire White Moon Pack and Cassidy standing outside the door.

Why else would Lenny and the Warriors show up here? And why now?

A few minutes later, Ramsey strode to the door and opened it. Lenny stormed in. His shirt was untucked, his hair dishevelled, and his face slick with sweat, like he had run a marathon. His

chest was heaving, and his expression mixed with fury and desperation.

“What the hell, Ramsey? Lenny barked. His eyes darted around the room, widening with shock when he saw the rumpled bed. He pointed at it, his eyes darting back to Ramsey who looked uncharacteristically calm. How was he doing it?

“Don’t tell me you…” he trailed off as our eyes met. I was hoping he wouldn’t notice I was in the room. When his gaze landed on me, his face contorted with disbelief as his eyes moved from me to Ramsey and back before landing on the bed. “Are you kidding me right now?”

He ran a hand through his hair, muttering, “Oh goddess!” He began pacing the room like a caged animal, his distress radiating off him in waves. His hands trembled as he unbuttoned his collar buttons. I could see the veins in his neck pulsing with tension.

“This is messed up. This is so messed up. What the fuck are you doing here Lyla? What are y doing in this room? Can one of you….” his eyes flicked between Ramsey and me as if he was searching for some explanation that would make sense of what was obvious.

No one spoke.

you

He walked to Ramsey, his eyes were wide with panic. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him that scared. “Do you have any idea what you’ve just done?”

Ramsey’s face remained impassive. “What are you talking about, Lenny?” he asked. His voice was even and unaffected. “Calm down, how did you find me here?”

“How I found you?” Lenny snapped, with an incredulous tone. “Is that what you should be worried about? How I found you when obviously…”

“Lenny!” Ramsey growled, giving him a pointed stare.

He sighed. “It’s Beta instinct. I realized a few hours after you left the club that you didn’t return. to the pack house, you were nowhere to be found and I grew worried. I followed your scent – though that didn’t do much and my gut feeling”

As he talked, he kept staring at his wristwatch. “But that’s not what matters right now. We can still fix this. If we leave right now we can still make it back to White Moon Pack in time. The ceremony isn’t for another four hours. We’ll get you dressed in record time. Thirty minutes late, tops. Nobody will notice and I’ll personally ensure every warrior here keeps mute about…” he gestured vaguely at me…this.”

“Her name is Lyla,” and, Ramsey chuckled darkly. “I’m not going back with you for the wedding. Perhaps, after the wedding. I will return but just go back home and pretend like vou don’t know

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I’ll handle this

Do you have any idea what chaos this will cause? What your grandfather will do?” Lenny’s voice cracked

his grandfather’s name, but he remained calm. “He doesn’t scare me, Lenny. Never did! All those times I caved in, I did it because I was hoping I would be a good grandson to him but after all these years, he still compares me to father. I am

said with a pleading tone.

pawn in his games, Lenny. Not

even know what you’re getting into?” he asked. “You think this is just

reputation.”

it. Ramsey looked perfectly calm to me. “I think you’re overreacting. Whatever Elder Eldric has done, Ramsey’s a

his own decisions

isn’t just ruthless he’s merciless. And when he finds out about this…” he trailed off and shook his head as

in Lenny’s voice that made my blood run cold. There was clearly a dark history here, one that made even this

attention to him.

said softly, his eyes meeting mine. “Could you give us

hand before slipping out of the room grabbing my jacket on the way out, a brief run would silence the voices in

after leaving the room but something felt off from the moment I stepped onto the

barely walked three steps when I heard a voice

It was Nymeris’s

the pack

whispered, careful not

she replied. “Go to

203 Dangerous dawn….

was filled with urgency.

“Why?” I questioned.

No response.

just give me instructions and disappear. I cannot show up at the pack house just

you need

minute, I thought she wouldn’t reply me.

she needs you there!”

thing that kept going through my mind as I ran to the pack house was perhaps, I’d misunderstood Nanny. She was my mother even before I realized it. I know I

straight to the pack house but when I got to the gates,

blocked me off.

you do not have authorization to access the

to the warrior on duty, I was shaking with fury by thick house.” access to wherever I want to in Blue Ridge. You can’t tell me not

am Lyla Woodland; I

stared at themselves, not before I caught pity in their

orders, one of them

who? Not Alpha