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 .

the strange marking I had noticed on her

line up perfectly on her spine – a mark I was

had cared for Lyla since she was a pup , dressed her , tended

Shadows of doubt

I seen

tried to dismiss it as a simple birthmark , but it kept gnawing at my mind

of experience with the spiritual had taught

every mole , every freckle ,

the latest and free

stars on her spine

fate .

–

odd feeling, the aura he had carried with him was darker even

, to brush it off as me being a super protective

the unease had crept back , more intense than before

was much darker than his son

regretted ever letting Lyla tutor Xander

something else and had changed my Lyla totally from the little

have been so blind ? Lyla had struggled with many issues growing up , constantly battling the scars of abandonment at an age where the

anything that made her feel like

mattered .

that she would do anything to be

must have known that

idly

needed answers , even if they were only fragments of the

it was time I took up my role

weighed by guilt from the past , so much that it

I was done .

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

Sarah , I informed

how long I’ll

go ahead and close up for the

looked up , obviously

been meaning to ask why she hasn’t come in

Lyla is fine ! ” I said with a tight smile

is fine , just some personal business I need to take care of

sorry for leaving you by yourself

”

her

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

, today seems like a slow

”

“ I

thought

waved at her already moving

came out of the cafe , I exhaled deeply , my mind was already racing just thinking of

only one

go to for the kind of

It was a

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of doubt …

I hadn’t visited in years

leadership , I ruined it all … although , I wouldn’t consider

at th