The Alpha’s Fated Outcast: Rise Of The Moonsinger

Chapter 287 287: Escape to Golden Gates...

Clarissa

Finally, when we were well away from the search party, we slowed down and continued at a normal pace.

"How did you find her?" I asked as we ducked under a low-hanging branch.

"I've been watching the pack house, keeping tabs on Nathan's movements," Jeremy replied in a low voice. "When I saw the search parties heading out, I followed at a distance. Found Lyla stumbling away from the shelter, barely able to stand."

We reached a dense thicket, and Jeremy pushed aside some branches to reveal a small natural hollow. There, curled on her side and covered with Jeremy's jacket, was Lyla. Her face was pale, her breathing shallow.

I rushed to her side, pressing my hand to her forehead. "She's burning up."

"The wounds are infected," Jeremy said grimly. "She needs medical attention, but we can't risk taking her to the pack healer."

Lyla's eyes fluttered open at my touch. "Clarissa?" she murmured, her voice barely audible.

"I'm here," I assured her. "We're going to get you somewhere safe."

"Nathan—"

"He doesn't know where you are," I promised. "We're leaving Blue Ridge tonight."

Jeremy knelt beside us. "My truck is parked about a quarter mile east, hidden off the old logging road. If we can get her there, we might have a chance."

"I can walk," Lyla insisted, attempting to sit up before collapsing back with a groan.

"No, you can't," I said firmly. "Beta Jeremy, can you carry her?"

carefully gathering Lyla into his arms. She weighed almost nothing, and in Jeremy's

through the forest. Twice, we had to freeze and take cover as search parties passed nearby. Jeremy's knowledge of the

concealed beneath a canopy of branches. Jeremy carefully placed Lyla in the backseat while I climbed in beside her, cradling her head

kit under the seat," Jeremy said as he started the engine. "And water in the glove

mercifully quiet for its age. Jeremy navigated the old logging roads with practiced ease, avoiding the main routes where

going?" I asked, dabbing Lyla's forehead with a dampened cloth I'd found in

can get you

I asked. "Nathan will know you

hands tightened on the steering wheel. "My place is with the pack. Someone needs to stay behind, someone who knows what's

selflessness of his actions struck me. "You could be

your father asked me to do on his death bed? He could have asked for anything, but he said I should take care of his girls. No matter how chaotic things would become at some point since he didn't have an heir, I should take you, your mother, Lyla and Miriam away from Blue Ridge to any place. So, I am doing this for Logan,

silence, the truck bumping along rarely used back roads. Lyla drifted in and out of consciousness, occasionally muttering names

as far as I go," he said. "We're at

it more than I'd ever meant

and pulled out a set of keys. "Take the truck.

know you helped

able to track it, and no matter what, stay away from Blue Ridge for now. I will see that your mother

war coming' as a big fight. Beta Jeremy still thinks

the bag. I didn't know what to say at this point, so I hesitated. "Beta Jeremy... please look after my mother and baby brother." My voice caught slightly.

head sadly. "I'm not so sure about Nathan anymore. Whatever's controlling him—this Xander that Lyla

who had dedicated his life to serving the pack and raising

have two options from here," he continued, visibly pushing aside his grief. "You can head to Golden Gates Pack and try to find Miriam. She would be at the Moon Temple for sure. I took her there myself. That would be my advice, given Lyla's condition. She

second

The only problem is that it's far, and they've recently experienced Feral attacks. I'm not sure they're allowing many outsiders in or out these days."

directions he gave me. When he finished, Jeremy leaned

him. "Both of you are." He looked up at me. "Take care of each other. The future of all