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 ...