The Alpha’s Fated Outcast: Rise Of The Moonsinger

56 Shadows of doubt …

Miriam ( Nanny )

It’s been three days since Lyla left the house .

I sat at the coffee shop , staring at my phone , with a deep frown etched on my face .

The Café was unusually quiet for a Saturday afternoon , making my thoughts louder .

At first , I had been so angry , so pissed at the girl , blaming myself for spoiling her and always letting her have her way and I had promised myself that I wouldn’t reach out , that when she was done with her tantrums , she would find her way home .

But I was wrong .

I had mustered the courage to call Xander the second day after she left home after going to school and was told that she hadn’t shown up since the previous day .

I found his number in one of Lyla’s contact books and had called his line the entire day .

The more I called and it went unanswered , the more unease crept up my spine .

Something wasn’t right .

Xander was the only friend Lyla had .

I was sure of that and since they were dating , she was most likely to end up in his house .

Xander finally took my call on the third day and I had clearly heard Lyla’s voice in the

background .

She had shouted something to me , calling out my name but I had been so fixated on Xander that I didn’t hear the words .

When I asked Xander what the problem was and why she was shouting , he brushed it off , laughing and saying they were just playing .

Even when I had insisted on speaking with Lyla , his tone had grown cold and he claimed , Lyla didn’t want to talk and had ended the call before 1 could protest .

I didn’t know where they lived .

There was no address in any of Lyla’s books and I couldn’t involve the human police .

They didn’t take things like this seriously .

Something was wrong , I could feel

it .

Today , I found myself staring at my phone again , Alpha Logan’s number displayed on the screen .

My fingers hovering over the call button .

I’ve thought about calling him several times but the risk was too great .

With the way the Lycan Leader was still looking for Lyla , despite the many months that had passed since she left the pack , going as far as sending Panther trackers , he might have been monitoring her father’s calls .

One wrong move could put Lyla in even greater danger .

My thumb hovered over the dial button , my heart racing but at the last second , I turned the phone off and set it aside .

No , calling Logan wasn’t the answer .

my mind wandered to the strange marking I had noticed on her back a

line up perfectly on her spine – a mark I was most certain had

pup , dressed her , tended

Shadows of

seen that mark

first , I had tried to dismiss it as a simple birthmark , but it

of experience with the spiritual had taught me that

freckle , every mark could mean

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three stars on her spine meant something and it could also determine Lyla’s

fate .

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the first day I met him , gave me an odd feeling, the aura he had carried with him was darker even in

, to brush it off as me being a super

the unease had crept

aura was much darker

ever letting

simple arrangement had spiralled into something else and had changed my Lyla totally from the little sweet girl

battling the scars of abandonment at an age where the love and support of a parent to a child was

always craved love , attention anything

mattered .

she would do anything to be

have known that

idly by any

answers , even if they

time I took up my role in Lyla’s

from the past , so much that it has stopped me from doing all the things I

I was done .

gathered my things and closed my office before walking up to the front counter where Sarah , one of

I’m heading out , Sarah , I informed

But I don’t know how long I’ll be , if I’m not

and close up for the day ,

, obviously

Is she alright ? I’ve been meaning to ask why she hasn’t come in for a few days now but I didn’t want to

fine ! ” I said with a

some personal business I need to

for leaving you by yourself

”

It’s fine ! ” she shook her head , flashing me a dimpled smile

to start his shift , there’ll be more than

seems like a slow day

”

“ I

I thought

, I waved at her

, I exhaled deeply , my mind was already racing

only one

go to for the

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