I nodded, wondering for a moment why he’d asked, but then I felt it.
Fuck, not already.Please, not now.Please, please not now.
Most of the room continued with their rowdy antics, grown men giving each other wedgies and smacking arses.Nothing out of the ordinary.
But I could feel five sets of eyes on me, and the skin on my neck prickled.
Harbour crowded in next to Tobias with an intensity to his eyes I’d never seen in him before—predatory.
“Harbour, clear the room.Pick a beta to guard the door,” Tobias instructed.
Harbour nodded, but it looked like it caused him physical pain to walk away.
I could hardly hear what he said to get everyone out as fresh sweat trickled down my back.When I looked around, everyone was gone except for Harbour, Max, Casper, Jacobs, and Tobias.
The latter stood protectively in front of me while the others lingered by the door like they were trying to force themselves to leave, but couldn’t.
“Get them out, Harbour!”Tobias barked, and it was enough to shake them from their stupor and their feet moving out of the room.
Tobias rubbed his hand soothingly up and down my back as I shook through the waves of heat that crashed through my body like a tsunami.
“I think something’s wrong, Tobe,” I panted, scrunching my eyes shut through the pain of it.
“What do you mean?”
“This doesn’t feel like a normal heat.I don’t know what’s wrong, but it’s never been this bad before,” I tried to explain all the while my brain got fuzzier and fuzzier.“My phone.Can you get my phone?”
When Tobias gave me my phone, I could only unlock it before passing it back because my hands trembled so much.
“Can you call… Doctor Wilkes, please.”
Tobias must have put it on speaker because I could hear the phone ringing out even as my head felt like it was underwater.
“Doctor Wilkes’ office, how can I help?”a chipper sounding woman answered the phone.
I groaned as my stomach clenched in pain, unable to answer.
“Hi, um.I’m calling on behalf of Emil Kipling.Is Doctor Wilkes available?It’s urgent,” Tobias explained for me.
“Can I take your name, please?”
“Tobias Metcalf.”
“I’ll just try his line for you, one moment.”
The line went silent after that.
“Thank you for holding.He’s got a patient in fifteen minutes, but I can patch you through.”
I scrambled to take my sweaty t-shirt off, suddenly feeling suffocated by it, and Tobias helped with his free hand.
“Doctor Wilkes speaking, how can I help?”
“I’ve got Emil with me now, you’re on speakerphone.He’s suddenly gone into heat, but he says it doesn’t feel right.He’s in a lot of pain, what should I do?”
“Emil, when was your last heat?”the Doctor addressed me directly.
I groaned before answering.“Last summer.”
