Tessa POV
True to his word, Xzavier was outside the bar every night waiting for me to get off work. We'd been having our nightly runs for a week now, and every night the shift had gotten easier. I no longer had an aching body after our runs, and I had noticed that each run went longer than the last. After we were done running, we would sit on the tailgate of my borrowed truck, drinking beers I would nab from the bar and talk. It was during these talks that Xzavier became more of a person than an alpha. He had hobbies, interests, and a sense of humor. Not everything about him revolved around being alpha. He was a genuinly kind and caring person. The easiest topic of conversation was always literature. Apparently we were both book junkies. We would spend hours talking about things we had re
