The Alpha’s Fated Outcast: Rise Of The Moonsinger

Chapter 2

Chapter 2: The Gala from hell

Lyla

I stood at the foot of the grand stone steps, my heart hammering against my ribs.

The pack house loomed over me like a fortress, its cold walls whispering memories of a life I had been cast off from.

I couldn’t believe three years had passed since that fateful night when my parents had sent me away in the dead of the night.

I had felt like a thief, banished without explanation or warning and nothing but a thousand dollars, clutching a single bag that was my clothes forcing me to vow never to return.

But now I was back.

I swallowed the knot in my throat, steeling myself.

I didn’t want to come, but my father’s command was not a request.

The annual werewolf gala was tonight and I was to attend.

I had no choice.

Taking a deep breath, I pushed open the heavy oak door, and the rush of familiar scent filled my lungs, bringing with it a flood of childhood memories both painful and good.

I had barely closed the door when my mother’s voice reached me.

“You’re late,” she hissed, her eyes narrowing as she took in my appearance.

Her sharp eyes flicked over me as if she was inspecting something unpleasant on the bottom of her shoe.

Beside her, my sister, Clarissa, gazed at me with a look that was somewhere between pity and disdain.

“I see you still haven’t learned to control yourself during your heat,” Clarissa scoffed.

“Father, it’s not a good idea for her to go like this.

She reeks…”.

“You think if we had a choice, I would have driven four hours to go and get her,” My father hissed “The invitation had stated that every family must send a representative that is 18 and above and ripe for mating.

I had no choice.

She was never an option, to begin with.

”

I flinched, “I’m sorry,” I began but my mother cut me off with a sharp gesture.

“Save it,” she snapped “We’ve been doing so well without you and we want it to remain that way.

Just remember, you’re here because we had no other choice.

Don’t disgrace us today.

If you cause a scene, or so much as draw unwanted attention… we will remove your name from the family register and disown you.

Do you understand?”

of this was my fault but I

my family had for me had vanished a long time ago buried under shame and

without a wolf, not with the monthly humiliation of my

“I understand,” I whispered.

will lend

stupid hair of you…” She turned to my sister “Give her one of

with two giant silver streaks in her hair

”

Mom,” Clarissa nodded and

the sting of tears behind my eyes but refusing to let them

followed Clarissa, my hands trembling

the pack warriors dropped me off in front of the grand ballroom, my father

my dress and headed

sound of laughter, music and clinking

and pure werewolf dominance filled the air as I reached the entrance and the moment I

like a lamb among

the heat crawling up my

spilled into the air announcing my

the whispers before I saw

turned,

“Is she… in heat?”

“No control at all.

She should be locked up and

snag

my palms, my nails biting into my

just ignore them…

murmurs and I saw Cassidy Thorne step forward, a mocking smile

realize they let mutts attend this year,” Cassidy

– was the epitome of werewolf

daughters would be like her… there was a time

suppose they’ll let anyone in these

”

through the crowd and

and moved to a quiet corner of the

how my body betrayed me every month turning me into a joke among the very people with whom I should by

back tears when I felt a strange prickling sensation at the back

the

stood alone, dressed in black from head to toe, melting

was fixed on

that were sharp and

and an air of quiet strength…but more than that, there was something in his gaze that I

the noise of the ballroom faded and all I could

about his eyes that held me captive – curiosity and …something more… My heartbeat quickened, not out of fear but out

Who was he?

I could dwell on it, a

to see a young Alpha, Darius standing in front of me, his

child and was the first person to spread my wolfless situation

because I had rejected the offer to be his girlfriend when we were

bore malice

it isn’t