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."

I had wriggled several times after we were done, pretended to have lost 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 other Alphas do

now, I made a complete fool out

have been a connection, a binding. There was

"Why did you let me

"I wanted to see how far you'd go with the charade. How much information you'd gather while thinking you had the upper

seen better days and tossed it

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

but I couldn't take my eyes off the man staring at me. My mind was still working its way

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

such a good actress. You endured three days of torture to convince me that you would not take the oath, you

I was sure no one had followed us

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

about, Nathan, and I don't care either. Just let me go," I started walking towards the door, not before

door and tried to touch the handle, it disappeared completely. What was left was just a wall.

were not magicians. The few of us that could do certain supernatural things were rare.

my heart was thudding violently in my

I accused, pointing a finger at

for a few seconds and then smiled. "Well…I

I scoffed in

here," he pointed at his chest. "It's not been easy

at him, trying to understand

surprised, Lyla. I can't believe you didn't know, or

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

took advantage of the fact that you may have seen me before in your past life and saw that my face matched the

my head.

important things? I've missed you, baby. Come sit with me for a while," he tapped

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