Proceed with caution, the next few Chapters will be quiet... intense C/W will be provided in necessary Chapters.

Yeon’s POV

Too many uprisings have been going on these days and the worst thing a person can do is to come from an insignificant clan like mine. We get dragged into everything, political wars, mafia wars, mental wars and most of all, gender wars.

Having slow mornings is a luxury, especially with how hard I have to work as the pack’s only healer.

’Tsk and they all mocked me for choosing this path’ I say to myself proud and burrow into the sheets, I love being the one they run to now.

Chirp. Chirp.

I have always hated the chirping of the birds, I hate how happily they do it when I need to have my morning sleep, and I especially hate when they do it too close to my window.

"Shut up!" I yell at the window as I sit up too quickly and pain shoots through my body so fast that I press my legs together with a gasp.

It’s here.

"No. No. No. No" I whisper in quiet panic before laying back down on the bed.

The cramp in my lower belly and the searing heat running through my entire body is a sign of what is happening to me.

While most of my peers presented as early as sixteen and seventeen, I am turning eighteen tomorrow and I’m presenting today.

With a pained gasp, I turn to my side to try and ease some of the pain, the heat inside of me is building up at a rapid pace and feels like it would cook me alive.

I try to calculate how long I have before my presenting would turn into a full one, the pain of presenting is worsened by the fact that I will have to do it all alone.

My mother will be leaving for work in thirty minutes, my father never came home last night, my first customer won’t be here till noon.

Which means, I will be in uncontrollable pain for at least five hours all by myself.

I wrap my blanket tightly around myself, trying to cover up myself as best as I can, because if anyone smells me, they’ll know an omega is presenting.

And if they find out that the omega that is presenting is a man...it will be horrible for me, maybe even more horrible than it has been for every young omega that has presented all alone.

This is a small town but there are still big beasts, beasts who walk around on two legs, wear iron pressed clothes and calls themselves officials.

"Yeon! Mom is leaving for work" Mom’s voice calls from downstairs and I hear the door slam, she never checks in on me...never cares for a son who acts like an omega...

To her, I’m already a mess and I bet she’ll be even more embarrassed to find out that I’m presenting as an omega.

"Damn it" I curse and press my face into my sheet to hide my tears.

Everything feels hot, searing enough that I want to rip my own skin off my body, even my own breathing feels like fire inside my chest.

"Help-" I cry for no one.

I studied hard enough ever since I suspected I will present as an omega, but none of those study guides and books really prepared me for the pain I’m feeling right now. Overwhelmed, I whimper and clutch my stomach.

Maybe if I get one of my natural potions...I will my body to move but I can’t move, my entire frame is locked on the bed by something beyond me, by the changing of everything inside me.

"Yeon!"

The door bursts open and my best friend enters the room with a loud yell of my name.

"Yah, get up" Jisung yells and when I don’t give him a response, he yanks the blanket fully off my body and I scream at him, "give it back!".

"Are you okay?" he asks when he notices that I haven’t gotten up to punch him yet and I hiss at him with all the pain I have been stomaching for the last twenty minutes.

"Jisung, if I was okay, would I be in bed right now?" I ask him calmly through my teeth and his eyes roam my half naked body.

"What’s wrong?" he asks and I don’t answer, I turn to the other side, clutching my stomach and conscious but uncaring of how my shorts ride up enough to expose the curve of my ass and the wetness of my...slick.

"Y-you’re presenting?" Jisung asks and I hear him sniff, "but you don’t smell like an alpha..." he says and I squeeze my eyes shut, grateful that it’s Jisung here and not some stranger.

"That’s because I’m going in heat, Jisung" I say and his face morphs into confusion at first.

"Heat? Only omegas experience heats and only women are omegas..." he trails off as it slowly dawns on him, "Yeon" he calls my name as he places both of his hands on his head.

"Goddess" he says, eyes growing as big as saucers, "goddess...Yeon...Yeon you’re going to be in big trouble" he says, panicking as he starts to pace the room.

I look away from him to suppress the sob threatening to leave my lips.

"Don’t panic, we’ll find a way-"

"Yah, you’re the one panicking and you’re giving me a fucking headache" I yell at him, but he keeps pacing and the worry coming off him is suffocating me.

"Jisung-ah, leave if you can’t handle it" I say softly and he looks at me with pain in his eyes, My best friend knows the fear I’m forcing myself to push aside.

He’s thinking of what would be done to me if they find out about this...strange phenomenon.

A male omega.

"I don’t want to leave you, I want to be near you" my dear friend says and climbs into the bed with me just like always, laying next to me like we usually do.

"What are we going to do?" he asks softly and I sigh, wincing as the small action sends pain through me, "when we wake up, we’ll figure something out" I say and with my new senses, his body warmth becomes what I need.

"When we wake up" Jisung repeats.

I don’t know how long we slept but when I wake up, figuring it out becomes the least of our problem, one of the mafia clans has invaded us.

Again.