#Chapter 5 Heat

Helen POV

Need swept over me with the force of a hurricane. Sweat beaded on my skin and my scent was amplified ten times as my body used every advantage it had to entice my mate to me.

"Justin---no," I panted, letting my head fall back as another wave of lust blew through me, "I'm going into heat. You should get back in the bathroom. Close the door. Keep the water running. You won't be able to smell me. I won't ruin you."

I would ruin him, too.

If my mate lost his Lycan abilities, he'd be left as a human with all a human's weaknesses and frailties.

I didn't want to think of my strong, monstrous mate reduced in any way much less made into a human.

Justin would lose his birthright, his place in wolfen society, his connection with his wolf---or was it his Lycan? He called his other half his beast. Was that how his inner voice spoke to him? As a monster out of myth?

Looking at him across the dark bedroom, my heat emphasized his size, his strength, his scent until I released the towel I'd