Chapter 61: Heat and desire

And now, as much as I understood I shouldn't have let it go so far, I also understood it would not help his mentality for me to constantly be telling him I was going to leave. For now, we just needed to get through the next four weeks on friendly terms, and I would face our goodbye when the time came. I decided to change the subject. "Did Alpha Cyril and your mother complete the ceremony?" I asked curiously. The abrupt change in his demeanor was startling. Tension rolled through his body. His spine went rigid. He let me go and backed away. I spun around to face him. "I'm sorry! You don't have to answer that." He'd lost his mother about six months before we met. Apparently, it was still a tough subject for him. He stared with darkened eyes. It was like he was staring at me but also staring through me at the same time, lost in his memories. A muscle in his jaw twitched. I waited silently, not knowing what else to say, worried I might say the wrong thing. After a long moment, he purposefu