Chapter 22: The True Dream

POV ALFRED

"They will live happily ever after!"

I spoke at the behest of anger and wounded pride, not that I wanted Selena to walk into the Rockfellers' mansion and have the door shut so hard along with the feeling that it would be hard to open it again to get her out.

I would not wait for her any longer when I had already done so for ten minutes, hiding behind the wall.

Selena had just been a finished story, however, I am reminded that the good ones always fall into the wheel to be told again and again. So, I wouldn't deny myself one last stop, a far way from our turbulent present.

The past is more affectionate with the disappointed and moving on to a place where my memories are joyful and uncontaminated by Selena's skepticism with Skyfall or her schism with the Rockfellers. A place where we could not guess what the future awaited us beyond being free like water that does not block before stones, even though they are precious.

So a waterfall at the end of a trail that would t