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?”

wanted to tell them that none of this was my fault but I nodded instead, my throat was too

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

had never been enough for them, not without a wolf, not with the monthly humiliation of my uncontrolled

“I understand,” I whispered.

coldly “Clarissa will lend you something from her

fix that stupid hair of you…” She turned to my sister

with two giant silver streaks in her hair will make everyone think she

”

and indicated that I follow

bit my tongue, feeling the sting of tears behind my eyes but refusing to

my hands trembling

warriors dropped me off in front of the grand ballroom, my father had been too embarrassed to

smoothed my dress and headed

sound of laughter, music and clinking glasses grew louder with

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

a lamb among

could feel the heat crawling up my

into the air announcing my presence like a siren’s

the whispers before

everyone turned, their noses

“Is she… in heat?”

“No control at all.

locked up and

is she trying to snag a mate with

into my skin as I willed myself to remain

them… everything will be

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

didn’t realize they let mutts attend this year,” Cassidy

was the epitome of werewolf beauty

daughters would be like her… there was a time when I wanted to be her so

let anyone in these

”

crowd and I

I forced myself to look away and moved to a quiet corner of the

hated how powerless I felt, how my body betrayed me every month turning me into a joke among the very people with whom

wall, trying to steady my breathing and fight back tears when I felt a strange prickling sensation at the back of my

the room

room, a man stood alone, dressed in black from head to toe, melting

gaze was

had amber eyes, that were sharp and piercing

handsome, with chiselled features and an air of quiet strength…but more than that, there was something in his

the ballroom faded and all I could see was

captive – curiosity and …something more… My heartbeat quickened, not out of

Who was he?

dwell on it, a shadow fell

a young Alpha, Darius standing in front

me since I was a child and was the first person to spread my wolfless situation when

the offer to be his girlfriend

still bore malice against

well, if it isn’t the Woodland disgrace,” Darius