Chapter 31: A Time for Everything

POV ALFRED

I didn't go after Selena, but I can assure you that my soul did. Because from that hour until dawn, I stood still, staring at the window in her room.

In those hours, the whole of Skyfall is asleep after a restless night. As long as the full moon lasted, the wolves would not rest for a day. And once again, I fail as a leader because of human affairs of the heart.

Life is demanding of me a choice that should not exist. There are pieces that don't fit together and only the old mother and father can give me some answers.

I jump out the window onto the street, avoiding meeting my mother who is in the living room. I am an Alpha, but my mother's instinct is that of a she-wolf protecting her cub. And as much as I adore her, at this moment I am unable to explain this maze we are being dragged through since the bloody day the Rockfellers trampled Skyfall.

"It's no use just blaming them, Alfred. The guardians fulfill our good and bad wishes. And Selena's have been fulfilled, althoug