I loved my pack, of course I did. I was the Alpha, after all. Yet today, I had been reluctant to head home. Reluctant to leave town with the situation unresolved with Gianna, but no way of fixing it. So, returning home seemed the only thing I could do, with the plan to bury my head in paperwork. I walked back into the packhouse only to walk straight into Levi. A knowing smirk upon his face. “Oh, so you are alive then?” he said accusingly. “We were about to send a search party out for you.” I rolled my eyes at my friend. He was cheeky f**k. It wasn’t like I hadn’t let him know I was headed out. I had literally asked him if he was okay to cover duties for me. “You knew I had stuff to do.” “Dancers to chat up, you mean?” he said with a grin, and I looked at him with a frown. “What gav