The Alpha's Fated Outcast: Rise Of The Moonsinger. - Chapter 193

Chapter 193: Get pregnant, Lyla!
Nathan.

“No, I am not,” I said with a huge smile. “Anyways, that’s none of your business. This oath is simply reassuring me that you will keep your promise and won’t hurt Lyla.”

“So, you will marry Clarissa?” Luna Vanessa asked staring at me with uncertainty.

Ragnar howled within me but I pushed down the pain and nodded. “Yes, I will.”

Alpha Gab rose from his seat again, his expression was grim. “If we agree to this, there’s no turning back. You cannot suddenly divorce Clarissa…I hope this is not a ploy to bring …”

“It’s really none of your business Gab,” I looked at him straight in his eyes. “All of you here have mistresses and a lot of stray pups outside your mate and marriage but you don’t see me questioning you.”

The men shifted uncomfortably, clearing their throats.

“So you’re still going to keep Lyla?” Luna Vanessa asked. She sounded offended.

“Again!” I turned to her. “I do not answer to you, Luna Vanessa. Do you want me to marry your daughter or not?”

“If we agree to this,” Alpha Regan murmured. “There’s no turning back. You’ll be held accountable for every decision, every failure. Are you prepared for that?”

I nodded. “I am.”

Alpha Regan studied me for a long moment before extending his hand. “Then I agree.”

He rose from his seat and walked towards me, when he came to stand in front of me, he brought out his pen knife and slashed it across his palm. Pouring the blood at my feet.

“I, Alpha Regan Skye, Alpha to Western Hill Pack and on behalf of the Alpha council of the west of which I am leader, on this day swear allegiance to Alpha Nathan Tanner. I agree that the decisions taken regarding Lyla Woodland stand and I will not go back on my word under any circumstance. I pledge this in front of the Alphas, may the Moon Goddess accept my allegiance.”

I grasped his hand firmly. One by one the other Alphas hesitated before following suit, each one reluctantly pledging their allegiance.

As I stood there, surrounded by reluctant allies, I felt a strange sense of triumph. I had sacrificed my happiness for Lyla’s safety. If I allow them to do what they want, who knows what else, Luan Vanessa might demand. But I had some ideas.

She might seek to strip Lyla of her title as the daughter of an Alpha completely, thereby giving her an ordinary status. This was the only way to protect her. In the bid to do so, I had gained something far greater – power.

The voice in my head laughed in triumph, and this time, I didn’t try to silence it. Did they want a political game? I’d given them one they’d never forget. Let them have their ceremony with Clarissa – I’d have their souls.

For better or worse, my fate was now intertwined with that of every pack in the South and West. I will take over the East and North as easy as ABC.

And I would ensure they never forget it.

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“Give me thirty minutes to gather myself and also talk to Lyla!” I said quietly as we walked out of the hall.

The Alphas nodded.

Instead of heading into the hall where the marriage was to continue, I walked to my car instead. In a few minutes, I was at home. I bounded up the stairs, three at a time, my heart beating furiously as I headed for my room.

When I opened the door, I saw, Lyla stuffing her clothes in a suitcase. The floor was littered with used tissues damp with her tears. I stood there for a moment, not knowing what to do or so.

“Lyla!” I called out eventually. “I’m sorry.”

“Yeah!” she murmured without looking at me. “Let’s get over it, Nathan. I’m glad everything ended like this, I wouldn’t want to get married only to realize that I am a bastard.”

“You are not a bastard,” I sighed. “C’mon, Lyla, your father didn’t live in denial of your birth. You’re his daughter and he made sure of that.”

She looked up at me finally. Her eyes were swollen and red from crying. “As much as I don’t want to hear your voice or you speaking to me, I am going to ask you one last time…”

Her eyes filled up with tears but she hastily wiped them off before turning to face me.

“What did I mean to you, Nathan?”

The question was ambiguous.

“Lyla, you know I love you…”

“I didn’t ask you that. You claim you’re my friend and you allow me to walk around without knowing the truth. I even killed someone… who else knows that Nanny is my mother? Who else does? Does Ramsey know? Does the entire pack know? Have I been living in a lie the entire time?”

“Aside from the Core Alphas, you mo – I mean, Luna Vanessa and maybe Clarissa and Ramsey recently. He only found out because of your resemblance with Nanny. Else that, no one else knows.”

She nodded and went back to her packing.

We stayed like that for a few seconds before I asked again. “What’s with the bag?”

She turned to give me a hard stare as if to say, are you blind?

“I’m going back to my home. You’re getting married to Clarissa… I can’t stay with my mom…” tears welled in her eyes again. “With Luna Vanessa and definitely not with Nanny. She lives in a temple. I still have a lease for my house in the human world and school. I’m not so sure about my work anymore.”

“You still have here!” I shrugged. “This is your pack, Lyla. There are a lot of buildings – free ones. You just need to make a choice and it’ll be yours or you can stay here!”

That was a stupid thing for me to say.

“And listen to you fuck my sister every night? Oh!” she chuckled dryly. “Clarissa would love this. A perfect opportunity to taunt me and throw it in my face. I was a fool to not have believed what she did at the Harvest Moon and you too, Nathan. You lied…”

I stayed quiet.

She finished packing and brought down her suitcase from the bed. I inhaled deeply again, thinking of the best way to deliver what I wanted to say.

“I actually have a solution to this dilemma. It’s a long process but it’s valid.”

She turned to me. “What? Are you going to ask me to be your mistress? You won’t be the first person to ask me that. Maybe that’s what I’m best suited for.”

“No!” I shook my head. “There is still a way to make you my Luna. The joining ceremony is just to recognize the mate bond between two individuals. Remember, I haven’t been coronated yet. The coronation seals the deal but if we can do this before the coronation, then we can still be together.”

“You heard that man!” she was staring at me curiously. “He said I’ll be taken to the Alpha council in the west and tried for murder.”

“You never have to worry about that anymore. Bottom line is you’re now immune to whatever it is they throw to you as long as you live.”

“O-Okay!” she arched her brow. “Then how can I become your Luna?”

I took in another shaky breath.

“Get pregnant, Lyla. Get pregnant for me!”