The Alpha’s Fated Outcast: Rise Of The Moonsinger

Chapter 280

Chapter 280 280: Hard decisions II

Lyla

His lips curved into a slow, wicked smile.

"Interesting," he murmured, taking a step toward me.

I had just made a dangerous mistake. I had just revealed my hand.

The blood oath meant I couldn't attack him – I was supposed to be submissive, bound to his will like a fool. If I were indeed under the oath's power, I couldn't have pushed him away or defied him at all.

I looked at Nathan and saw he knew I'd been faking my submission all along.

"So, you've been playing games, Lyla," he said, straightening his shirt where I'd gripped it. "I suspected as much, but thank you for confirming it so… dramatically."

"I don't know what you're talking about, and I'm sorry if I pushed you. You know how it is with my powers. I haven't learnt mastery of it and…"

He threw a pocket knife to me, and instantly, I caught it. In my defense, it was coming directly to my face. What was I supposed to do?

Nathan nodded, satisfied. "And you're fast, too. See how you caught the knife in milliseconds. Have you been training, Lyla? But you deceived me into thinking you were still a rookie."

"You assumed, Nathan," I said quietly. "It's not my fault you thought I was still weak."

He nodded. "So, did your mate teach you?"

"Mostly him and many other nice people," I retorted. "But how did you know?" I asked, my mind racing to formulate an escape plan. I needed to know exactly how much he knew, how long he'd been onto me.

"The blood oath never took effect," he replied. "I felt nothing when we performed the ritual, even though you put up a show."

my memory of everything, and clung to Nathan. It was when he wondered if that was how I was supposed to behave, primarily since the

made a complete

a connection, a binding. There was

I demanded. "Why did you

go with the charade. How much information you'd gather while thinking you had the upper hand." he gestured around the room. "And look where it's led

days and tossed it to me. It landed directly

father wrote. Sorry, I had to exchange it because he spent the better part of the letter telling you to avoid me and that I was the Dark One and a lot of accusations, and then he kept

and pick it up, but I couldn't take my eyes off the man staring at me. My mind

was locked. My eyes began to scan my room, looking for something I could use

selected an apple from the bowl there and bit into it. "You're such a good actress. You endured three days of torture to convince me that you would not take the

was sure no one had followed us to the clearing where Nanny and I had had

you almost convinced me you were real. If you had stayed until the fourth day, I swear, I would have thought you really wanted to

care either. Just let me go," I started walking towards the door, not before bending down to

it disappeared completely. What was left was just a wall. I turned to him.

able to do that. Werewolves were not magicians. The few of us that

to face him; my heart

Nathan…" I accused, pointing a finger

for a few seconds and then smiled. "Well…I can't deny that either, you know. I am Nathan and

scoffed in disbelief.

pointed at his chest. "It's not been easy keeping up

stared at him, trying to understand

believe you didn't know,

afraid at this point. "You came to me in the human world in your original form, Xander. Both you and Mr Dupree. Nathan was

fingers together and then nodded. "Smart thinking, Lyla. I came to you in someone's form, believe me. I only took advantage of the fact that you may have seen me before in your past life and saw that my face matched the one from Neriah's time. But believe me,

my head. "You're

we skip that part of my identity crisis and just concentrate on more important things? I've missed you, baby.

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