Xavier POV "When are you going to tell her?" Thomas, my beta's voice is low, his eyebrow raised in question as we sat in my study, Alyssa safely tucked away upstairs. "In time" my voice is dismissive. He snorts "Xavier, do you think that you can keep a whole damn pack of wolves secret from your wife for long? Let alone the nature of your wolf? He's going to make an entrance eventually and show himself, whether you like it or not. The mate bond will see to that" his voice is incredulous, and I glower at him, not willing to admit that he might be right and that I'm being foolish by wanting to prolong the inevitable. "The pack is already having difficulty waiting until the middle of the night to go on runs and heading into the middle of the forest before shifting" he pointed out smugly