I stepped out of the house, making sure to close the door softly as I left. I hadn’t said goodbye to my mother, or the girls and I knew that if I woke them now, all of my efforts at being quiet this morning, would have been in vain. It was still very early, something that wouldn’t do much in terms of improving my mothers’ mood, since the sun was only starting to rise now.
As I turned my back on the house, I found myself tensing at the sight of a man standing a few yards away from my house—I relaxed once I realised that that man was no one other than Alpha Alexander, the Senior. I couldn’t help but think that he had been foolish to give his son the same name as him, for it made addressing them so much more difficult.
I took the few steps down the porch but came to a standstill directly af
