Clementine:
After a few minutes of silence, I began to wake up. I realized I had only been out for about ten minutes. They had wrapped me in a blanket and laid me down on the bed.
All of them were sitting around me. One of them was rubbing my feet, and another was rubbing my hand. They were taking care of me.
Waking up to my mates around me really changed things for me. I suddenly felt much better, though still in pain.
"What happened to you, Clementine?" Troy asked, holding my hand tightly.
"I don’t know. I just had this weird coldness hit my body," I muttered, my lips still quivering. I was still so cold.
"Okay, I must intervene and ask you this," Yorick started softly.
"Ask me what?" I replied, confused.
"Did you feel any sort of pain in your body, like the transition pain, but then it never happened?" Troy questioned, and Yorick added with a head nod.
I began to nod because it really was like that. I did feel the pain.
"Okay, so here is the issue. Remember when we told you we were feeling heat?" Troy began.
"Yeah, you are in heat too," Yorick finished, and my eyes shyly dropped down, unable to make eye contact with any of them.
"That’s a normal thing. You don’t need to feel like that," Troy murmured and then quickly slapped Yorick’s chest for saying it so confidently and openly that it embarrassed me.
"No, I’m not trying to make her feel some sort of way. I’m just letting her know that it is normal. We felt it too, so maybe that is why you did too," Yorick explained.
I began to think about Ian. If all my mates were in pain along with me because we hadn’t done anything about our mate bond, then that meant Ian felt the same.
And he thought the best way to take care of his body heat was to just sleep with that girl. And it seemed like that girl was none other than his ex, the one he told me he had moved on from.
It was a lie. He gave her another chance even after she played him so badly. So she must be someone really special.
"Are you guys still in pain?" I asked them, realizing they were being so considerate and here I was, thinking about someone who didn’t even think twice before taking somebody else to his bed.
"Even if we are, it’s okay. You don’t need to worry about us. But we are worried about you," Haiden stated, and I kept staring at them.
I honestly felt like I had been too cruel to them. The emotions were so high, along with the fact that Ian was playing me, that I began to soften a little towards my other mates.
And I bet they noticed, because Yorick started to gently run his hand up my leg. Haiden and Troy watched, but I didn’t stop him, even when his hand reached my thigh and parted my legs.

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