A few hours pass.

It's hard to explain how the next few hours pass, catching up on life, comparing notes, swapping stories, but for you at least the time passes quite pleasantly. As pleasantly as it can when your body is in heat and your desires to mate are strong, fed all the more by the scent of a young available male, one you know and trust, in many ways the right guy to mate with, take that risk with. You know from sex ed class in school that in heat all bets are off, and the only safe way to avoid the risk is to hide for a week, or find a neutered male and shack up with him.

The idea of a neutered silverback in your bed just doesn't appeal to you but as the afternoon progresses, Peter is looking more and more attractive, and you are having a harder time concentrating on the conversation. Eventually you hear Peter pause mid-story, a tale about a funny accident in training, his eyes on you. "Everything okay Tabs?" he asks.