I groan while rocking from side to side.The last thing I want is Lorcan’s hands all over me again, but then what can I do?I can’t stay here like this; it’s agony! I’ve been in heat before; I’m an adult. But it’s never been this painful. But then, I never had a mate before. I’m actually surprised it took this long to hit me.If I’d felt this creeping up on me, perhaps I could have snuck off territory and gone home. I have heat suppressants in my extra medical kit. That would have kept my heat hidden from other wolves, and I would have been able to get through it without pain or having Lorcan touch me.But I know deep down there would have been no way I’d have gotten off territory without Lorcan catching me.Where the fuck would I be then?

Gianna has hardly said two words to me in more than two weeks. Even when her heat hit, and we fucked like wild beasts for the best part of three days, she barely said anything.I did nothing through those three days but stay by Gianna’s side. Luckily for me, work didn’t suffer because Josh is good at stepping in when needed.Gianna’s heat passed, but she doesn’t deny me when I want to take her. She even initiates it some days, which serves to tell me that Gianna’s ‘Boyfriend’ couldn’t have meant all that much to her. Either that or he couldn’t satisfy the girl the way a man should.The mate bond is nothing but an excuse for why we have sex every day. If Gianna is not in heat anymore, and if she truly loved this Mason, she’d put a stop to my wandering hands. But she doesn’t, and it seems she can&rsqu

I stare at myself in the mirror.I look like crap!Every day, it gets more challenging to be here with Lorcan. We barely talk, yet when he does say something, it’s nothing nice.He demands that I give my body to him, and I comply because I can’t help it. I only have to look at him for a second too long, and Lorcan swears that I want him. It’s not like that, but I can’t say anything because he laughs and calls me a liar.Okay, most of the time, I am lying; I do want him. But I hate myself for that fact.I hate myself even more for the way I acted during my heat. I couldn’t get enough of Lorcan and what he could do to me. I loved all the things he allowed me to do to him in return, a

“Listen, guys,” I lean forward in my seat. I took the back seat and let Katy ride up front with Harper. “Stop worrying so much. I can handle Lorcan.” “You don’t understand,” Katy tells me. “Lorcan is going to skin us alive for taking you off pack territory.” “I understand why you’re worried,” “Do you?” Harper snaps while looking at me through the mirror. “Because I don’t think you do. You’ve been here a few weeks, and yet you have no real clue as to what Lorcan can be like. Everyone was told not to take you anywhere, and we did.” I raise my eyebrow. I don’t know what Lorcan’s like? Is she mental? Regardless, I feel as though she’s blaming me for this. I know that Harper is scared, but this wasn’t my idea!

“What the hell have you been up to?”Claire and her cronies all stare at me.My eyes narrow as Claire, the ring leader, shrugs her shoulders.“Just hanging out with our Luna.”I get a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. I know what Lorcan was up to in his office with Claire. I heard the slut through our mind-link when Lorcan told me to send Gianna to his office.I also know that Lorcan didn’t fuck Claire; he used her to hurt Gianna. But Claire will pretend that the Alpha screwed her and that he now wants her as his Luna. I know the girl very well.Lorcan thinks Emily is bad, but she has nothing on Claire. That woman is a viper with very sharp fangs.After Lorcan returned this afternoon, he was in a foul