Lilith pov

Hot.

I felt so hot, like my whole body was on fire. My face burned, my body trembled, my eyes glassy as my breathing came slow and uneven, everything blurred at the edges but most of all… my inner thighs pressed tight together, my core slick, not from the water but from something deeper, something aching and restless.

Was this because I was in heat?

No. It wasn’t. I knew what that felt like—sharp, insistent, a warning clawing through my mind, it felt primal, like I had to mate or die but this… this was different, like my body had taken over, like something inside me had snapped...