Iris could hear Onyx growling somewhere on the palace grounds while she was getting dressed in the garment she was wearing to the caverns.
The excruciating pain and lust she endured when her heat returned, the deep desire to find her mate and be rutted and filled with babies, and a strange urge to build a nest, were now eased. In it’s place a steady thrum rolled over her body in a pulse-like fashion.
What surprised her most though was everyone of the women in her circle, Jing, Erya, Barb, Oakley, Hua, Lulu, and several of the maids assigned to her, all reported an onset of their heat.
Jing happily injected herself with a birth control while muttering, “I’m happy to get rutted by my overzealous mate but I’m not having any more babies. One arrogant king was enough. I don’t need any prin
