The Alpha’s Fated Outcast: Rise Of The Moonsinger

Chapter 425

Chapter 425 - 425: The final goodbye...

Lyla

The silver light around Nanny was growing brighter by the second, and I could feel the air itself beginning to vibrate with the power she was calling forth. This was really happening. The woman who had raised me, who had been my anchor through every storm, was about to sacrifice herself to save us all.

"Mom," I whispered, reaching toward her with trembling hands.

She turned to me, and for a moment the terrible light dimmed enough that I could see her face clearly. Her eyes were filled with love and peace, the same expression she'd worn when she used to tuck me into bed as a child and tell me stories.

"My darling girl," she said softly, "Come here."

I moved toward her, and she pulled me into her arms the way she had countless times throughout my life. She smelled like lavender and home, and I buried my face in her shoulder as tears poured down my cheeks.

"I'm so proud of you," she murmured against my hair. "So proud of the woman you've become, the mother you're going to be. Your dad would be proud, too."

"Please don't leave me," I sobbed, clinging to her like the frightened child I suddenly felt like again. "I don't know how to do this without you."

"Yes, you do," Nanny said firmly, pulling back to look into my eyes. "You've always been stronger than you realised, Lyla. You defeated Xander, a feat none of the Moonsingers before you could achieve. You've survived everything life has thrown at you."

She reached up to touch the necklace at her throat. It was the pendant that she'd come with as a child and the only indication of her parentage.

Gently, she lifted it over her head and placed it around my neck.

"This is for you now," she said. "And for your daughters after you. The legacy continues, my sweet girl. You must always be happy."

"Mom, I love you so much," I whispered, the words felt inadequate for everything she meant to me.

"And I love you," she replied, pressing a kiss to my forehead. "More than all the stars in the sky. You gave me purpose, Lyla. You gave my life meaning. Raising you has been the greatest privilege of my existence."

"We need to move!" Kyren's voice cut through our goodbye with urgent necessity. "The spell won't hold them back much longer!"

but firmly toward Kyren.

"I can't—"

said with absolute conviction. "You will. For your

back as Miriam moved to the centre of the stone circle. The light around her was becoming blinding now, and I could feel

began to chant, his voice ringing through the clearing, "Let the bonds be broken, let the darkness fade,

around Miriam like an invisible chain, and she nodded once at Kyren before closing her eyes and extending her arms toward

who will live on," she said. "I sever what was wrongly joined. I break what should never have been bound. I offer myself as the price

exploded into

swallowing everything up – the stones, the crowd of enemies, Delia and her siblings. I heard screaming, but it seemed to come from very far

horror as she realised what was happening. I saw her siblings trying to flee, their forms beginning to dissolve

standing serene and beautiful in the centre of the destruction, her face peaceful as she gave everything she was to ensure

light grew brighter and brighter until I couldn't see

Darkness.

***

My hand was clutched around something cool and smooth – a pendant on a delicate chain. I stared at it in confusion,

Thank the

a chair beside

struggled to sit up, my head spinning slightly with the

eighteen hours. You, Ramsey, Circe and Kyren returned from the human world yesterday evening,

the familiar walls of my childhood bedroom in the Blue Ridge pack house. Everything looked exactly as

trying to piece together my fragmented memories. "Everything feels like a dream. Or a

its design. It was beautiful and old, but I had no memory

"I've never seen that before. Maybe Ramsey gave it

something deep in my chest ached when I looked at it, as if I'd lost something

but concerned. "Ramsey told me some of what happened. About the shapeshifters, about Xander's children. About the final

the ritual, the fighting, the desperate escape. But there were gaps, moments that felt important but

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