My body was burning hot.
My head spun as if caught in a relentless whirl, and my stomach felt tight, as if tied into a knot.
Breathing became rougher, and my vision blurred from the fever.
My legs weakened, causing my knees to buckle.
I knew these symptoms all too well.
It was a ‘Heat Cycle’.
“No way...”
The frequency of a heat cycle varies for Omegas, but mine has always been very regular.
I manifested as an Omega during puberty, and my cycle has never been off schedule.
But the past is the past, and the present is the present.
I am in heat right now.
In a bustling downtown area during the evening rush hour.
“Damn it...!”
After stumbling around and barely managing to stay on my feet, I finally collapsed.
This was the worst situation I could imagine.
I could feel the warm, slick fluid between my buttocks.
My breath, forced through clenched teeth, became increasingly ragged.
Taking the subway in this condition was out of the question.
“That’s it... I can’t... hold this anymore...”
Fumbling, I pulled out my phone from my pocket.
I intended to call one of the Alphas saved in my contacts, but my trembling fingers kept slipping on the screen.
My vision was so blurry that I could barely see.
- Hello? Is that you, Yun Lee? Bring me a Klondike when you come.
The number I somehow managed to connect to was Park Sinwoo’s.
Of all the people, why did it have to be Sinwoo who ended up on the line with me at this moment?
He isn’t even an Alpha; he’s a Beta, and more importantly, he’s my friend.
Even in desperation, I wasn’t out of my mind enough to call a friend —let alone a Beta— over for sex.
I cursed and hung up the phone.
Sinwoo’s incredulous voice, questioning why I was cursing when he was only asked to bring ice cream, faded as the call ended.
With shaky hands, I struggled to find another number when I faintly detected the scent of an Alpha.
During my heat cycle, my heightened senses instinctively chased after the Alpha.
A group of men standing a few meters away was watching me.
“Yo, isn’t that an Omega in heat? Should we grab him?”
“Man, he’s still a guy. Not my type.”
“Come on, even for a Beta, get a taste of an Omega in heat and you’ll be singing a different tune.”
Their snickering voices reached my ears.
Bastards.
I gritted my teeth.
I was so desperate that I would’ve contacted an Alpha I broke up with two years ago after slapping him across the face for being too clingy, but I wasn’t about to deal with these jerks.
I wouldn’t even consider those lowlifes who were ready to take advantage of an Omega in heat, not even if they were the last option on earth.
Besides, they were so damn ugly.
‘They must be crawling with STDs.’
I cursed them to myself as I forced myself to stand.
I had to get away from them, but my legs were still shaking, and the men, including one Alpha, were approaching quickly.
‘Damn it!’
I searched my contacts for my last resort.
Going to a hospital that specializes in Alphas or Omegas if I couldn’t handle my heat cycle would be humiliating, but it was still better than being raped by those ‘Alphas.’
Just as I was about to press a button on my phone,
“Are you okay, young man?”
A voice stopped me.
A potent Alpha scent, strong enough to completely erase the faint whiffs of the taunting ‘pseudo-Alphas’, enveloped me.
The leisurely deep voice and the highly polished shoes, almost shiny enough to reflect a face, were before my eyes, but what stirred me more was the raw energy of the Alpha.
The jerks who had been irritating me were swiftly pushed out of my thoughts.
I slowly moved my blurred gaze upward and saw a man in a dark gray three-piece suit and long coat bending down towards me.
“Should I take you to the hospital?”
Desperately, I reached out, grabbed the man by the shoulder, and pulled him closer. My hand, burning with heat, touched his face.
Early to mid-thirties. He was older than me, but his looks were not bad at all. I also liked the strong Alpha scent that was constantly being released from his body.
Even if I were not in my heat cycle, his powerful pheromones might have quickly put me into heat.
“Do you have any STDs?”
He laughed incredulously at my blunt question.
“No.”
“Then let’s have sex.”
He chuckled in response.
“Are we not strangers?”
“Do I look like I even care about that right now?”
My voice grew desperate, and I swallowed hard.
Just moments ago, I was frustrated by the sudden onset of my heat cycle, but now, it was the opposite.
‘I must fuck this Alpha.’