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few minutes you should feel a lot better,” Stephanie explained, patting Sarah’s uninjured leg, “Just relax for a few while I get an ACE bandage and an ice pack for you.”
    “Thank you.” Erik shook Stephanie’s hand before she left. “Are you all right?” He asked, looking back to Sarah.
    “Yeah, I think so.” As she lay there, the pain ebbed, and she noticed other, more curious things happening in her body.
    Her skin was ultra-sensitive, and she felt fevered. When Erik brushed her hair from her cheek, tucking the strand behind her ear, she whimpered and turned into his touch.
    “Sarah?” The confusion in his voice was so cute. Everything about him was cute…and sexy as hell.
    Abraham moved his hand from where he’d been holding her leg, and she arched as the act caused a zing of tingles to shoot through her.
    “Shit, man, can you smell that?” Abraham’s body tensed, his jaw clenching. “Heat.”
    “Yeah. You need to leave.” When Erik’s order was ignored, he turned a menacing growl toward his brother. “Now, Abe!”
    With a tight nod, Abraham headed to the door. “You need to get her out of here and quick.”
    “I know. Send the doctor back in if you see her.”
    Sarah knew what they were worried about. If she was going into heat, then Erik’s wolf would be frantic to get to her. They were in a very public setting, so this was really not the most opportune moment for this to occur. Come to think of it, why was it happening?
    She wasn’t sure what was going on, or how this had all come about, but she did know it would only get worse. Her needs would become more demanding…and she needed him .
    “Take my car. I won’t be able to be in it with her and maintain my control.”
    Abraham’s nostrils flare as he inhaled again, and Erik growled low, the sound more beast than man and a clear warning. Apparently, realizing what he’d done, Abe plunked the keys on the counter and quickly left.
    “Erik?” Her hand was hot against his, burning with the carnal fever rapidly building in her system. “What’s happening?”
    “She must have given you a narcotic with that shot. It reacts differently with us,” he explained.
    “I’m hot and achy, and I…” Sarah felt a heated blush rush to her cheeks as she snapped shut her mouth and looked away. How could she explain, to a virtual stranger, this sudden need to be touched? Her skin felt too tight, and she was horribly aroused, despite the fact that she’d just experienced some of the most intense pain of her life.
    “I know what you’re feeling. I’ve had this happen to me before. You crave things. You want to be touched. You need release.”
    Her eyes widened even as her breathing quickened.
    “I’ll help you. It’s not exactly how I’d hoped to become intimate with you, but we’ll make it work and without sex. If you choose to mate with me, I want it to be of your own free will and not from a drug reaction.”
    Sarah merely nodded. It seemed all she was capable of at the moment. She felt as if she were being stretched on a rack of desire. Having his hand hold hers when she wanted it in about a dozen different places was pure torture.
    Her only hope was that the doctor could give her something to counteract the reaction, but she should have known better. After all, it wasn’t as if they could explain the problem without looking completely certifiable. Now, she could only hope to get out of the clinic without making a scene.
    * * * *
    Twenty minutes later, she desperately tried not to squirm in the passenger seat of Abraham’s SUV as she and Erik tore through the streets to get back to Erik’s home.
    “Hold on, sweetheart. We’re almost there.” He was trying to soothe her, she knew, but the scent of arousal in the vehicle, combined with the husky quality in his voice, affected her in very naughty ways. She had the sudden urge to hear him speaking low in her ear, filling her head with dirty little suggestions and fantasies to fuel her