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

perfectly on her spine – a

she was a pup , dressed her , tended to her

of

seen that mark

tried to dismiss it as a simple birthmark

the spiritual had taught me that nothing was

every freckle , every mark

latest and free

sure those three stars on her spine

fate .

–

I met him , gave me an odd feeling, the aura he had carried with him was darker even in all the years spent as a worshipper of

ignore it , to brush it off

meeting his father , Mr Dupree , the unease had crept back , more intense

much darker than his

regretted ever letting Lyla tutor Xander

simple arrangement had spiralled into something else and had changed my Lyla totally from the little sweet girl , she used to be into something

constantly battling the scars of abandonment at an age where the love and support

anything that made her feel like she

mattered .

too well that she would do anything to be with someone who showed her even the slightest

must have

sit idly by any longer

, even if they were only

was time I took up my role in

that it has stopped me from doing

I was done .

before walking up to the front counter where Sarah , one of the café’s baristas was wiping down

, Sarah , I informed with

I’ll be , if

and close up for the

looked up ,

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

” I said with a tight

fine , just some personal business I need

leaving you

”

her head ,

soon to start his shift , there’ll be more than

, today seems like a slow

”

“ I

thought so too

you later , I waved at

deeply ,

was only one

could go to for the

It was a

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of

hadn’t visited in

the place that taught me everything I know and shaped me into the person I became and just when I was to attain leadership , I ruined it all … although

arrived at th