Next week on Home and Away in Australia, as Mackenzie and Levi are shunned by Summer Bay’s residents, could it spell the end of their love affair?

Mackenzie (Emily Weir) and Levi (Tristan Gorey) first kissed back in January. At that point, Mackenzie was a patient at Northern Districts Hospital, where cardiothoracic surgeon Levi had just operated on her following her spontaneous carotid artery dissection (SCAD).

The pair attended Xander’s (Luke Van Os) fundraiser together after Levi convinced a nervous Mackenzie to go, allaying her fears that she would suffer another cardiac incident if she left the hospital.

Levi reciprocated when Mackenzie planted a kiss on him shortly after they returned to Northern Districts, but he soon pulled away, clearly troubled by something.

It wasn’t long before the pair kissed again, but it was a little while before Levi admitted what was bothering him – he was a happily married man, whose wife Imogen (Georgia Blizzard) was waiting for him at their home in the city.

Despite some initial trepidation, it didn’t take long for Mackenzie and Levi to embark on a full-blown affair, with Levi making repeated trips to the bay under the guise of checking on his patient.

After months of sneaking around – and not-so-sneaking around, as they were nearly caught kissing in public by Alf (Ray Meagher) – their secret affair was revealed a few weeks back when Levi’s sister Eden (Stephanie Panozzo) caught them kissing out in the open once again.