The water was ice. Agnes had made sure of it.
She'd drained the bath twice and refilled it with water so cold her teeth were chattering before she even stepped in. Warmth was the enemy. Everything below her waist was the enemy, and had been since she woke up at midnight with her skin on fire and her wolf howling loud enough to split her skull.
Heat.
She knew the signs all too well, and she had every intention of handling this with dignity.
What she hadn't expected was for it to happen now.
Yes, marking is what triggered heat cycles. Agnes was marked. Fine.
But she had never heard of a woman going into heat without a full moon, let alone a woman marked by an Alpha. Alpha-mate heats were tied to Blood Moons. Once, maybe twice a year. Some years, none at all.
The moon was barely a sliver tonight.
Garrett was born a Gamma. He carried an Alpha aura now, but only because of the Ascension Rite. Maybe that was why? A transferred aura instead of a born one. It had to be.
