Alpha Zane's POV Strange, but I can feel my body tense and my heart is beating unusually fast. I look around, I'm alone in my office, there's nothing that could be the reason for that. For the past few hours, I've been working frantically to catch up with the papers on my desk and tackle some urgent matters in the pack. The past week I've hardly been in my pack, Mercedes had it again going and wouldn't let me go. Her eighteenth cannot come soon enough. Then she can live here in the pack with me and be around me all the time. My mate is very affectionate, when she looks around, she always wants to see me close. At first, I thought it was insecurity, but eventually I found out that I too could hardly breathe if I didn't see her for only some hours. It's just a two-way stream. It started se