“This has got to be a joke!” Aidan put his hands to his head as Rhiannon poured another bucket of ice into the tub where Aidan sat, shivering. “I’ve been in heat many times before, and none of them felt like this. Are you sure?”

“Akela says it is,” Rhiannon replied, “and the truth is that that makes perfect sense. All these days we were full of hormones, the wolves felt it, but your bonding ritual with Akela triggered it all.”

Aidan splashed ice water on his face and hair and let out an embarrassing sigh, his whole body felt like a bomb about to explode.

Rhiannon looked him up and down. He was only wearing his underwear and that didn’t do much to help her decision of not being with him. Every part of him looked perfectly designed, as if the Goddess had sculpted him just the way she liked him.

“Your face isn’t helping me,” Aidan scolded, snapping her out of her thoughts. “Do you like what you see?”

Rhiannon wrinkled her nose and bared her teeth at him in a childish, defiant gesture, an