Chapter 53. I Am Not Afraid

 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 around, Mercedes had it going again and wouldn't let me leave.

 Her eighteenth birthday cannot come soon enough. Then I can have her here in the pack with me and be around me all the time. My mate is very affectionate. When she looks up, it's me she likes to see first, 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 several months after I discovered her as my fated mate. She had spent the school holidays in my pack but refused to leave if