Chapter 41

As daylight broke, Chris said, "I assume this wasn't how you expected to spend your seventeenth birthday.

I sighed and rested my head on Chris' shoulder. "Not really," I said. He wrapped his arm around me as I cast a somber glance toward the door, hoping and praying that Levi would soon enter. I wanted to change the subject, so I asked Chris, "Are you sure you don't want to get some sleep?"

Once Alpha Ethan returns, I'll go home," he said. Chris completed his first shift swiftly and without incident, and then we hid inside the guest house while we awaited my companion. Even though morning was approaching, I hadn't slept since returning to my birth Pack; it felt like a long time had passed since the voyage had begun.

You know, you can call him Levi , I remarked.

He may be your mate, but he's still the most dominant Alpha in the nation. He's just never going to be a 'Levi ,'" Chris said with a shrug. We both fell silent, and I felt Chris's eyes on me. He was frantically trying to lif