Beta Jace's POV

I walked towards the sports center with Erina’s hand in mine.

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, shares everything with me openly like an open book. My mate is brilliant, 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.

To me, her life began the day she ended up...