CHAPTER 2: HEAT AND SECRETS

Olivia stretched her limbs tiredly before waving at Trisha and Amanda. It was a particularly busy day and her back was killing her after standing for hours straight without a break. As she walked out of the club, all she could think of was reaching her apartment and plopping onto her bed. She was so drained that she was certain she would fall asleep the moment her head hit the pillow. 

Her apartment was just a few blocks away from the club and hence, despite being tired, Olivia decided to walk. It was late at night and there was not even a single soul out in the streets, but Olivia was used to this. As she walked, the blue eyes of the mysterious customer flashed in her mind again. With all the rushing to serve the orders in time, their strange encounter had taken a back seat in her mind. But now that her shift was over and she had time to breathe, her thoughts returned to him and how she had just about lost herself while in his presence.

Never had Olivia ever felt such a strong attraction to someone before this day. Everything about him drew her in from his blue eyes, his firm body, and even his domineering aura. Just a simple glance at him, and she was ready to throw herself at him and beg him to take her right then and there. How can he affect her so much? And more importantly, was it just her or did he feel something for her too?

Olivia thought of his parting words to her and bit her lips nervously. Before he left, he had warned her to be careful the next time. Though he had insulted her, she couldn’t help but focus on the words ‘next time’. Was that a promise that he would visit again? As soon as the thought crossed her mind, she reprimanded herself. She was certainly overthinking things. He must have just said that casually, and she was seeing too much into it. There was no way a gorgeous billionaire like him would take any interest in her. Even if he visited the club, he won’t even spare a second glance at her, a nobody. The thought should have been comforting to her since she had no plans to tangle with the man who seemed like the personification of danger itself. Still, the thought of him not feeling anything for her made her heart twinge with pain. 

Olivia tried to shake off her confusing feelings, but the damn man refused to leave her thoughts. As if summoned by her lustful thoughts of him, she felt a tightening in her belly. Olivia was planning to go straight to sleep, but now she guessed she would have to change her plans. She was so wound up by the stranger that she needed to have a meeting with Mr. Hottie pants, her vibrator, which helped her satisfy her needs on lonely nights like this. 

Olivia hurried her steps but stopped and panted hard when she felt a slight cramp in her belly. Ouch! Was it time for her period already? But her periods had just finished a week ago. Olivia frowned before shrugging it off and walking again, only for another cramp to hit her. She gasped and clutched her stomach as the pain eased up. It was like period cramps, but somehow different yet familiar.

Olivia wiped off her sweat and wondered why it was hot all of a sudden. Suddenly, her stomach clenched with a strange sensation and she felt suffocated in the layers of dresses she had worn. She wanted them gone and had the sudden urge to take off her dress in the middle of the street; maybe even touch herself without waiting for her trusted vibrator. Woah! What? These were certainly not thoughts that someone has while out in the streets. What was going on with her? 

Even before she realised what she was doing, Olivia was popping off the buttons of her coat. She paused and her eyes widened in horror as she realised what she was doing. Just then another cramp hit her and along with the pain, a delicious heat slithered up her body, making throw her head back and moan loudly. Olivia clasped her palm on her mouth with wide eyes and wondered if it was really her who let out such a wanton sound. Just what was happening with her?

Right at that moment, she felt a presence in the back of her mind and realised that her wolf Sia, who has been in slumber for the last four years, was stirring awake. What? How? Why now, after all these years? She wasn’t ready to let go of her normal human life now! Olivia thought frantically as she tried to shove her wolf to the back of her mind again. But Sia remained stubborn and refused to back down. ‘Not again, Olivia. It’s time,’ she heard Sia’s whisper before another wave of heat slithered down her spine! Wait! Heat! And then she realised why it felt familiar. She had felt this exact sensation about four years ago when she had turned sixteen. 

It was time for her first shift and when she tried to suppress her change; she had been hit by her heat. It was only because of the potion Maya, her witch guardian, had given her that Olivia could suppress her wolf and her heat. She drank that potion regularly from then, and there was no way her heat should have come now. But here she was, nearly throwing off her clothes and rubbing herself like a hoe. In a few moments, her human scent would change and the scent of a she-wolf in heat would be a mating call for all the male wolves in a fifty-mile radius. 

With how scarce female wolves have been in the past few decades because of a witch’s curse, female wolves were very rare and treated as a trophy. Once her scent hits the male wolves and they realise that there was a female wolf near them, one in heat at that, she will be chased by them all until one claims her and makes her submit to him. That was exactly what she had been trying to avoid all these years and if she let the heat take over, her worst nightmare will become reality tonight!

Olivia pinched herself to snap out of her lusty haze and tried to decide what to do. She looked around the familiar street and felt relieved when she realised her apartment was just a block away. Maybe if she rushes there and drinks the potion before it’s too late, she could stop the heat this time too. With renewed hope and determination, she started running towards her home, only to fall down in the middle of the deserted street when another wave of heat assaulted her. Damn! This was getting stronger and stronger! 

Olivia let out a moan and squeezed her breasts, trying to relieve herself from the agonizing desire coursing through her veins. Her body was craving a man who could fill her womb with his seed and her own touch could only help her curb the edge. Olivia had heard tales of women who went through their heat alone, but it was a nightmare to them. But she couldn’t try to find a man since she couldn’t handle being with a human in her current state. A female in heat would be too aggressive during sex and she may end up revealing the existence of werewolves, which is a guarded secret. And she had no plans of being near a male wolf who wouldn’t even blink before claiming her as his conquest.

Olivia shuddered at the thought and pushed herself to walk again. Even if she had to crawl, she had to reach her home because getting claimed by an asshole male wolf was not even an option for her…