Epilogue
Heidi leaned against her exam table, more exhausted than she could ever remember being in her life. The physical tiredness didn’t surprise her, because Ryan kept them both up all night, but it wasn’t their strenuous mating that wore her out.
It was the number of people who’d visited the Healing Center to see the brand Ryan Calder had put on her. Brandi had told her that she’d felt like one of Gareth’s cows every time she saw the mark. Heidi got that now. Totally got it.
She’d see a patient for a precious few minutes, and then have to see twenty or thirty residents who came traipsing through asking to see her mating marks. Frustrated with her clothing being tugged out of the way, she’d finally taken off her shirt and b*a, and loosely fastened the stolen Crane lab coat she still
