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 .

there still lost in thoughts , my mind wandered to the strange marking I had

– a mark I was most certain

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

Shadows of

seen

dismiss it as a simple

had taught

every freckle , every mark could

latest and free

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

fate .

–

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

tried to ignore it , to brush it off as me being a super

Dupree , the unease had

was much darker than his son

regretted ever letting Lyla tutor

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

Lyla had struggled with many issues growing up , constantly battling the scars of abandonment at an age where the love and support of a parent to a child was paramount

had always craved love , attention anything

mattered .

anything to be with someone who showed her even the slightest kindness or

must have known that

sit idly by any

needed answers , even if they were only fragments of the

took up my role in Lyla’s

guilt from the past , so much that it has stopped me from

I was done .

things and closed my office before walking up to the front counter

, I informed with a

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

, go ahead and close up for the

looked up , 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

I said with

some personal business I

sorry for leaving

”

” she shook her head , flashing me a

will be here soon to start his

today seems like a slow

”

“ I

I thought so too

you later , I waved at her

, I exhaled deeply , my mind was already racing just thinking

only one

for the kind of answers

It was a

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of

I hadn’t visited

was 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

arrived at th