Cherish Me, Daddy
he asked, voice calm, clinical.
“My… head hurts,” I whispered, the words barely escaping my cracked lips.
“That’s expected,” he said, his eyes never leaving mine. “You struck the sink when you collapsed.”
Lucen stood at the foot of the bed, his tall frame rigid, his jaw a line of iron. “What happened to him?” he asked, voice controlled, too controlled for a man who usually let his emotions roar like thunder.
The doctor exhaled slowly, as if pulling the truth out of his own lungs. “He has a high fever,” he announced. “It was caused by excessively suppressed pheromones.”