The Witch and Her Four Dangerous Alphas

Chapter 102: Chapter 102: My Heat Cycle

Selene’s POV~

The steering wheel felt hot under my palms, or maybe it was only me. I wasn’t sure anymore. The air in the car was thick and heavy, pressing against my skin until I could hardly breathe.

My breath came out ragged, too fast, and too shallow, and no matter how many times I tried to calm myself, it just wouldn’t slow down.

My whole body felt like it was burning from the inside out, like a fire had been lit under my skin and was spreading fast, leaving me restless and aching in ways I did not want to admit.

The road ahead blurred in and out of focus, my eyes stinging with sweat, my mind slipping like it was caught in a fog. I cursed under my breath again and again, but it didn’t help. My chest tightened, my throat felt dry, and I knew something was wrong with me. Terribly wrong.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. I never thought it would come so soon. The flood I had dreaded, the one thing I had always pushed to the back of my mind, was here. My heat cycle.

I had left Witch Mother’s house only hours ago. Her words were still echoing inside my head, but now they felt distant compared to the storm clawing through me.

After leaving her home, I had gone with the trio—Sara, Rael, and Aswin—to meet the witches we had rescued that day. Yes, it was true; the trio had also rescued witches that day. They had not come empty-handed, and I knew this thing was definitely setting a fire under those mutts.

And for the first time in so long, I had felt like something good had actually been done. I had smiled at their faces. They were pale and tired but alive. I had even let myself breathe a little easier, thinking maybe, just maybe, there was still hope left.

moment I stepped out of the house, the hope started slipping. The heat hit me like a

trying to ground myself, but even that did not clear the fog.

to, and shame washed over me harder

my body betraying me, aching for something I refused to name. The car felt smaller and

focus on the road, on the lights passing by, and on the sound of the engine humming steady and low, but all I could hear was my own heartbeat pounding in my

now..." I whispered, my voice breaking, barely

was I going through this again?" The heat cycle was supposed to be

always been told—that when you found them, when the bond pulled you together, the heat cycle would come stronger and

even though we had not marked yet, even though that bond was still hanging between us like an unsealed wound, this was already the third time

trembled with the heat rolling under my skin. I bit down on my lip until it hurt, but no pain could push away the restless ache spreading through me. I was frustrated, more

was a witch. Witches did not go into

a strange thought struck me. What if... what if I wasn’t only a witch? What if part of me carried the blood of a wolf? I didn’t know

of my father’s blood. All I had was the power in me, the proof that at least one

made my stomach twist, but at the same time, it explained everything. If I did carry even a trace of wolf blood, then this

forward down the empty road. My heart

this. Not when Sara was there, not when the others could easily find me. I had lied to them already, telling them I had something to do, taking the car alone. If they saw me like this, if they smelled this on me, it