“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 embarra