I climbed back into the tub and gasped as the freezing water wrapped around my heated skin once again. “I…I…” I just held up my hand. “It wouldn’t be like that, Amy.”
I looked at him with tears in my eyes, and I watched him track the ones that fell. “You don’t have to lie to make me feel better. You just have to get out.” Then I sank under the water, leaving only my nose above the water. And I waited to hear his steps fade as the heat took me under again.
My heat took a full week to disappear. And the entire time I cried for Rowan, I needed his touch, but I was left alone chained to the wall of my bedroom. The pain was excruciating, but it still never compared to the pain of giving birth, which I still remembered viscerally. But both now and then paled to having my new born pup laying o
