Chapter Thirteen: Touch"I think you triggered my heat," she tells him with a blush that goes from her cheeks down to her breasts. "Do you um- do you know what that is?" she asks, flushing even brighter with the thought that she might have to explain her body's humiliating reaction to him. He frowns. "You- is it your first?" he wants to know and she lets out a sigh of relief at not having to explain it to him. She nods. "I've never met anyone that I was comfortable enough with to trigger it," she says. "It's supposed to happen when I hit puberty, but I've always been a little slow, developmentally." She turns her gaze away, embarrassed. Experiencing her first heat signals that she's fertile and ready to mate. Some female Werewolves suffer through heats as well, but she knows it's rare. "

