{ One Year Later. }

I stared at the man standing beside my Alpha. Pierce.

What the hell was he doing in this packland?

"What are you doing here."

"That's a wonderful hello mate."

Pierce had doubled in size and had a beautiful tan on his skin. he carried this air about him now, like he was a true warrior.

"Pierce is going our ranks, since his mate is here of course."

I turned on my heel and literally ran away. There is few things that I would run away from and Pierce is totally one of those things. I didn't care where my feet would take me I just needed to hide. I ran into the Gym and into Wyatt's office. He looked at me confused, and then he smiled.

"So your mate's joining our pack huh?"

"Apparently, that's why you need to hide me."

"Why?"

"I don't want to face him."

Wyatt only began to chuckle. He pointed to the door and I saw Pierce standing just outside the office door and my Alpha blocking the only way out of the gym.

How do you face someone you have had wet dreams about for over a year in the face?

I slowly stepped out of the office and tried to keep my distance from Pierce. I didn't even want to think about the feeling of the mating tingles should he touch me.

"It's nice to see you Erin."

I turned and looked at him watching as his hand reached out and touched my cheek. the tingles spread across my cheek and my lips tingled when he brought his thumb across my bottom lip. I stepped back out of his reach and I heard the light growl that slipped from his lips.

"How have you been?" I said softly.

"I have been well. Alpha Andreo taught me to appreciate my wolf and this gift, he trained me as well."

" I'm glad to hear you say that."

"He also taught me more about mates, There hasn't been a night since he taught me to be closer to my wolf that I haven't thought about you."

I stopped the breathe I was inhaling and looked at him. Sweet Christ. I was embarrassed to hear all of this coming from his mouth, I really didn't want everyone in the gym to watch me get flustered here.

"Let's go back to my cabin and talk.."

He nodded and followed me. The walk to my cabin was slow and awkward. He took my hand and I went to pull my hand out of his but I found I couldn't. My hand fit perfectly in his. My face started to heat up and I stopped looking at our hands together. we approached my cabin and I took my keys out from under the welcome mat and shoved open the door.

"Please make your self at home."

"Thank you."

I walked to the kitchen and grabbed two beers out of the fridge. I cracked the top off mine and handed him the closed one. he popped the lid off and took a deep drink, my eyes raked over his throat as he swallowed.

I took a deep drink of my beer, almost half the bottle in one go. Those beers had been in there for a few weeks, I had bought them for the other warrior wolves because I normally didn't drink. Other wolves had an amazing tolerance to alcohol but not me, I could get drunk pretty easily.

" How did you get your Alpha to let you come here?"

"I asked if I could go because with my mate now that my training had finished."

"And he was cool with that?"

"He told me I was welcome to go, so I came to find you."

"Uh huh."

"You don't believe me, you could always call Alpha Andreo and ask."

I sipped the last of my first beer and went to the fridge to get another.

* * * *

Four beers later I was a mess. My head felt light and I couldn't stop laughing. I needed to pee really bad so I stood up and wobbled my way to the bathroom.

Somewhere after I had finished peeing I fell right into the tub and just laid there laughing. Pierce came to check on me.

"I heard a crash..... did you fall into the tub."

"Haha, I don't know. One minute was standing the next poof."

"Christ you're drunk."

"I am not."

"Uh huh."

Pierce knelt down and checked to see if I had any wounds and then he grabbed my hand and pulled me up out of the tub. I leaned forward and kissed him.