Alex's POV
'I think we freaked her out.' I link Asher.
After Ellie basically sprinted out of the water to get away from us I have been feeling guilty. She looked damn hot in her underwear set and when she was standing under the waterfall I was practically drooling. Then when she jumped in the water and did that hair flip, I almost lost it. It didn't help that as soon as we crowded her and smelt her arousal Ace almost pushed forward in an attempt to claim her. When I told him we couldn't because she was human and we didn't know if she was our mate he nearly chewed my head off but retreated to the back of my mind.
'I think you're right, what should we do?' He replied.
'Honestly, I have no idea. Maybe let's let her dry off then we can go talk to her.'
'Sounds good.'
A few moments later Ash and I get dress and I bring Ellie's clothes to her. I asked to join her and apologize for what happened. I'm glad to know we didn't make her uncomfortable but I am sad that we confused her. Ash and I explain that we have always found her attractive and aren't just looking for a hook up. Not sure why she would think that unless she thinks that's what we do when we aren't with her, I honestly don't think she realizes we are still virgins because we want her to be our first and hopefully our only, goddess willing.
As we leave the waterfall and hike back up to our campsite we are all in our heads thinking about the brief conversation we had. As I am talking with Ace I feel Ash trying to link me.
'Hey, should we have kept our feelings to ourselves? Did we just ruin our friendship.'
He sounds so insecure and I can't blame him. Ellie's been way more quiet even with all of us in our heads, the atmosphere feels more tense.
'I don't know, I don't think we ruined our friendship. You know Ellie, she tends to overthink but I feel the truth would have come out eventually, we probably should have confessed years ago but it's too late to look back at what we should and shouldn't have done.'
'You're right. I just don't like the tension. It has both me and Alaric on edge.'
'Us too. It will all work out. I'm sure of it.'
Just as we finish our conversation through the mindlink we arrive at our campsite. Ellie turns to us and begins to speak.
"Hey, I know what we talked about is a lot. It's a little overwhelming and I still need a little time to process. I'm going to grab some stuff and wash up and change. While I'm down by the river I'll set up the fishing poles for dinner."
"Okay sweetheart," I grab her and pull her into a hug and I kiss the top of her head. "Whatever you need to do."
Ash walks over and wraps his arms around her too, then kisses her temple saying, "Yeah Angel, we will get the fire going, take your time, we will be here if you want to talk more."
Ellie nods her head, goes to the tent to get what she needs and heads down to the river. As she does her thing Ash and I get everything set up for the fire. We wait until Ellie returns and hope that everything is okay between us.
About a half hour later Ellie returns with a huge grin on her face. Her smile makes me feel a lot more at ease and I look at Asher and can tell he feels the same.
"What's got you so happy Angel?"
"I just caught the biggest fish of my life!" She squeals in excitement. We both laugh because she really is adorable.
"Really? Let's see it." Ash states.
She sets down the bucket and reaches down to pull out her catch and holy cow she's not wrong. The fish she caught is at least 50-60 lbs. The pure elated look on Ellie's face makes me feel all sorts of things. Our girl is seriously perfect and if the moon goddess paired us with anyone else I will be so upset. Yes we could reject our fated mate and take Ellie as our chosen but that's basically slapping Selene in her face and saying she doesn't know what she's doing when she chooses the other half of our soul. It's why you become weaker if you do that, the only exception of not becoming weaker after taking a chosen mate is if your fated mate dies. Sometimes Selene will grant a second chance mate but it's so rare that most don't risk waiting to see if they are one of the chosen few to get one because most mates lose the will to live if their other half dies so taken a chosen mate can help them rebuild their strength both mentally and physically. Honestly it's the only reason why I would take a chosen mate, but if Ellie wasn't our fated, I might make an exception and willingly weaken myself for her but only for her.
As I am caught up in my thoughts. Asher takes the gigantic fish and starts preparing it for dinner. It really was a fantastic catch, the perfect one for our last night. I grab Ellie and bring her to the fire and set her down, while I set up the rack over the fire. Just as I finish Ash brings over the fish and lays it on the rack to cook. We all just get back to our usual laughter and jokes, the us before the waterfall incident. Once we our done with dinner I start to clean up while Asher goes and grabs our surprise for Ellie from our bags in the tent.
"What's that you have hidding behind your back Ash?" Ellie questions when he comes out.
"Oh nothing special," he quips as he pulls out a bag of marshmallows, a box of graham crackers and a pack of Hershey candy bars, "just ingredients for your favorite camping snack, figured we would save the best for last."
Ellie squeals, her happiness written all over her face.
"Nothing is better than campfire s'mores!" She says as she starts opening up everything. Then she pauses as she skews a marshmallow. "Wait if you had these the whole time, why haven't we been eating them since we got here." She admonished.
Chuckling I say, "Because if we brought them out the first night we would have none for our last and you always have to save the best for last, just like Ash said."
With a pout she said, "Whatever." Then she grabbed her skewer and placed the marshmallow above the fire.
About 20 minutes later we were done, Ellie started picking up the garbage and Ash and I started putting out the fire and making sure that it was extinguished completely. As we were finishing Ellie had gone into the tent and laid down on the air mattress. When Ash and I were finished we joined her, stripping down to our boxers and briefs taking the same spots we took the night before. As we crawled in we noticed one big difference from last night, not only were my brother and I only in our underwear, but Ellie had stripped down to only her panties as well. My goddess she is trying to kill us.