Chapter 56 Guilty alpha and his restlessness

• Dusky clouds of the night hung as a veil against a crescent moon, concealing it in its shadow. It was unusually silent tonight. The owls, insects and every creature that occurs out of nature at night hid themselves in the nests. As if refraining themselves from emerging out.
• While out there the moon remained suspended partially covered, inside his chambers Alpha Alan twisted and turned in his bed.
• Sleep was far away from his eyes. It's not that he had not caught a wink of sleep. It was just that a shuddering nightmare fragmented his slumber in the earliest hours of darkness, waking him up, panting badly and sweating like he recently had a bath.