Wasting My Time

Beta Jace's POV

With Erina by my hand, I walk in the direction of the sports center.

I have to say it's quite a relief to be able to come clean to Enrick and now the Council too. Avoiding Erina was eating at me, my mate is still young but demands my attention as the sole claimant. She wraps her life around me, she tells me everything straight away like an open book. She's a brilliant girl, somehow she makes sure we don't get bogged down in a father-daughter relationship. For a five-year-old, that's surely remarkable.

But I don't really know much about her.

For me, her life begins the day she ends up here in the pack. But I know there is more. When hinted at her life before that, she kept her jaws tight. She never speaks up. All I know is she's part of triplets, but I doubt I'll ever see her other two sisters. And yes, she also mentioned that her mother had just given birth to twins. That statement made me doubt now if Drina is really her mother, as I suspect.

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