Chapter 99: Bloody Period

Back at Heaven Isles.

The sky was a clear, deep blue, and the air was crisp and cool. The trees were ablaze with red, orange, and yellow leaves, like a living mosaic against the sky. The scent of fallen leaves and woodsmoke hung in the air, and the world seemed alive with color and life. There was a sense of stillness and peace in the air, a feeling of calm before the winter storm. This was the season of change, of things falling away and new things being born. It was a season of endings and beginnings and of transformation.

It was the autumn season.

The soft warmth of sunlight on her skin woke her up.

Discomfort, sharp piercing pain. Soreness, migraine.

This was the first thing Mellisa's body registered immediately her eyes fluttered open, red hot searing, sharp pain, and she groaned weakly; a whimpering sound as she felt the aggressive throbbing in her lower abdomen.

A sickening discomfort resting in her groin like she was being stabbed with a fucking blade. The fatigue that washes