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There was another beat of silence before he finally said, “I’ll get them.”
I bit my lip. “Don’t worry about it. I’m good.”
He let out a long breath, but I heard his footsteps as he walked away afterward.
Easing myself away from the door, I finally turned the shower on and stripped my clothes off. My mind continued to replay what little I knew about dragons as I scrubbed myself with August’s unscented four-in-one bodywash.
Dragons could shift forms.
They were secretive.
They guarded the supernatural prison.
And apparently, they had some kind of weird mating process called heat.
I tried to remember everything he had said about heat, too.
His fire was in my veins, and would cause me pain when I was away from him. Considering the increasing warmth and ache in my muscles, that wasn’t hard to believe.
It would last two weeks if we had sex, and four weeks if we didn’t. But if we had sex, that would seal the bond that had started between us.
So, no sex.
Four weeks of pain.
Yay.
We would go our separate ways after that, at least. I’d go back to my life, and August would go back to his.
He hadn’t told me why the heat had started, as far as I could remember. He’d said it was my fault because I interrupted their conversation and put my scent in his nose or something. But he hadn’t said why that triggered heat.
His mind would devolve with distance between us, too. That was… something.
He’d said that when it did, his priority would be making my pain go away. I didn’t understand how or why that would happen, either.
So, I had questions to ask. Questions were manageable.
What else had he said?
Hmm...
If there was more, I couldn’t remember it.
The ache in my muscles was getting seriously uncomfortable. And the heat in my veins was, too.
I turned the water temperature down a bit. It didn’t really help, so I just sighed and washed the soap off my skin.
August knocked on the door again. “Fireball?”
“My name is Elodie.”
He ignored my statement. “How are you feeling? Are you in pain yet?”
The question caught me off guard.
I didn’t want to hear that pain was inevitable.
“Fireball?” There was an edge to his voice.
