The Alpha’s Fated Outcast: Rise Of The Moonsinger

Chapter 286

Chapter 286 286: Clarissa's path...

Clarissa

The bed where I'd left her was empty, the blankets thrown aside. Signs of a hasty departure were everywhere. "Damn it, Lyla," I muttered. Why couldn't she have listened to me just this once?

A noise outside made me freeze. Voices, growing closer. Flashlights were cutting through the trees.

"—check the old groundskeeper's place."

"Alpha says she might be hiding nearby."

They'd found us. I needed to get out and find Lyla before they did. But where would she have gone in her condition?

I slipped out the back window just as the search party reached the front door. Crouching in the bushes, I watched as they broke in, their flashlights sweeping the insides of the shelter.

"It's empty," one of them called. "But the bed's been slept in. She was here."

"Spread out," ordered Nathan's assistant's voice. "She can't have gotten far in her condition."

Condition? It means Nathan had purposely left Lyla in my Father's private study to make use of her later on. I'm sure his assistant must have seen how battered she looked.

I remained absolutely still as they spread out, beginning their search of the surrounding area. Once they moved far enough away, I crept from my hiding place, heading deeper into the forest. If I were Lyla, injured and alone, where would I go?

willow by the stream. It had been a childhood hiding spot, one of the few places Lyla and I had shared before our relationship soured. If she remembered it, if she

well out of sight. The forest grew denser, the underbrush scratching at my legs as

There was no sign of Lyla. I'd

someone?" a voice said

hand, ready to defend myself. But the figure that stepped from the shadows wasn't

are you?" I whispered, lowering my knife slightly, squinting in the darkness. "What are you

I imagine," they replied. "Trying to save Lyla before Nathan

demanded. "Did you

nodded. "She's

you?" I asked again, peering into the darkness. It was the shape of a

stepped fully into the moonlight, and I nearly gasped

at Nathan's father with a mixture of shock

of gray now and deep lines etched around his eyes. As Beta of Blue Ridge, he'd always stood loyally behind my father when he was alive. Also, since Nathan has yet to appoint a Beta, he's been acting as Nathan's Beta and supporting his decisions without

are combing these woods, and they're getting closer. We need to

never cared

always cared about Lyla. I wish she had listened to me and not been involved with Nathan at any point. I'm not one to lay blame, but Nathan

for her," I said, watching him closely. Who knows, he might be working with Nathan's men. "He's ordered

to move quickly." he gestured for me

this unexpected ally. "How do I know this isn't a trap? Why

"But right now, I'm the best chance you and Lyla have of surviving

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