The Alpha’s Fated Outcast: Rise Of The Moonsinger

34 Night shift II

Lyla

My smile didn’t waver , but my eyes turned cold .

“ I’m afraid that’s not on the menu .

Coffee and pastries , however , are .

Would you like to order ? Can I get you guys started with water first before you decide on what you want to have or should I ask you to leave ? ”

The guy’s friends snickered but he looked taken aback by my firm response .

After a moment of tension , he straightened up .

“ Fine .

Five large black coffees .

To go .

”

I moved over to the counter and in a few minutes , I ‘ had their order ready , I package it in the to – go box

and went over to them with c

OS .

“ Hey ! ” I said casually – they stopped talking as soon as I approached them but I paid no attention to them .

I dropped the coffee on the table .

“ Here you go gentlemen ,” I flashed them a smile but my eyes held a warning .

“ Before you pay , are you sure you don’t want me to get anything else for you guys ? Our Lemon cake is quite popular .

”

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“ No , lady ! ” their leader huffed and brought out his card .

After swiping up and confirming their payments , I thanked them again and went back to the counter marvelling at my composure , In the pack , I would have shrunk away from such confrontation .

But here , in this small coffee shop , I found a strength I didn’t know I possessed .

It was as if a lot of things had changed since I got back .

To say the truth , it hasn’t been all sun and roses .

I remember when I and Nanny – Miriam had first arrived in the human world exactly 3 years and six months ago today .

We had little more than the clothes on our backs and some money my parents had given me .

It had been a hard transition , especially for me who was used to living in ple

Having whatever I

wanted to eat , all the clothes that I liked … and also for Miriam who was used to the structure of the pack life .

But we had managed , surviving on Grace’s little savings and the little money I had left .

For six months , we wandered from one shop that was looking to employ .

We didn’t have referees or CVs as the human called it .

They couldn’t trust us enough to let us work for them .

Despite , our willingness to work

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without being paid until they realized we weren’t fraud , they had all refused .

job had been a stroke of luck

the days , famished and munching on hamburgers we got at a place where they

Nook’s window .

but kind – hearted man named John had taken one look at us and hired us on the spot

trust my

us “ And they’re telling me

needs .

”

he just smiled and told Miriam after she finished recounting how her husband left us to fend on our own

someone

”

time since we’d left the pack that I felt seen for something more

little apartment above the coffee shop , and for the first time , I

here .

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I and Nanny were quick learners and soon found out that we enjoyed the

– everything

of the apartment above the coffee shop and

, he was always on one cruise or the other and only called every month to get the

brought a small smile to my face as I prepared

as I handed it to the customer , my phone buzzed in my

phone out

was a private ID

you cover for me for ninute ?

at my phone before stepping into the back room to answer

Hello ? ” I said , but all I heard

? ” I repeated , a knot forming in my

no response , only the faint crackle of interference

when I thought I heard something – a voice ,

could make it out ,

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disconnected .

I stared at my

,

–

again this time , it

My heart quickened .

time , I answered with a sense of urgency

Who is this ? ”

, only

point as I hung up once

several times over the next hour

the static – a word , a name , warning ? – but

unnerved , I

as I leaned

a

my phone

inst the wall .

What

calls were grating on my

need for air , I called

to step out for a

”

suggestion box that no

the brick wall of

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what I’d worked so hard

been sober for three months

, my

lit it with trembling hands , inhaling deeply

at seventeen , finding it an easy way to deal

had promised Nanny that I would quit but right now , I needed something

day had been too strange – first school , then

… there was something

he smoke curl into the evening air

upree’s eyes on me earlier sent a fresh wave

he ? Was he really Xander’s dad ? And why did he make me feel so uneasy ? Why does it seem like I’ve met him before ? I had never reacted to anyone like that before

just

thoughts , I didn’t notice the group of men approaching

their eyes glinting in the dim

was off , putting me on