SERAPHINA
Ever since I’d decided to flee the wedding and join Lupine Academy, my biggest fear hadn’t been being exposed or caught by my father—it was my heat cycle.
Going into heat surrounded by Alpha wolves was practically suicide. That’s why I’d been so desperate for the witch’s perfume. It wasn’t just meant to conceal my scent, it was designed to suppress my heat entirely while I was at the Academy. A powerful potion disguised as perfume, created by an old witch, who had sent it with a grim warning: delaying heat would double the pain later.
I’d accepted the risk. Whatever the cost, I would build my own throne—and nothing, not even pain, would stop me.
But now… now everything seemed to be falling apart.
Despite the perfume, the symptoms had begun. My body felt hot and achy, my temp
