Beta Eric's POV
These last few days have been the happiest of my life.
Here I am sitting with Alexis at a spectacular lake, we moved here to enjoy the peace. Here we can be free with each other without having to answer all sorts of questions. Not that we want to keep our relationship a secret, but we have agreed to wait until she is eighteen when I can officially claim her as my mate. I am so looking forward to that day.
I look down at her face, her head in my lap as she stretches out on the blanket we have spread out on the grass. The picnic basket is beside her, I have made sure it has everything she likes. I can't believe she'll be mine in a week, my heart pounding as I think of the moment she'll shift for the first time and identify me as her mate.
Our biggest hurdle will be Zane.
