Alora’s POV After Morgan left the gathering, the elders saw no need to keep going since they were gathered there mainly for him, so the meeting was called off. I walked with Selene back to the pack house. “Are we staying the night, or are we leaving immediately?” I asked, fearing her response. She smiled softly. “I'll be here for as long as you need me”, she replied, sitting down on one of the sofas in my room. I turned away from her, folding my arms along my chest. “I don't want to be here, mother.” “Come here” she called out to me. I went close and sat on the sofa close to her, facing her. She took my hands in hers. “Why didn't you call”? She asked “Call”? “The Orphanage. Why didn't you call when you got into trouble? All the time you got into trouble”? “But I called”?

