Chapter 621

CHAPTER 121 : THE MARK IS GONE

*Xander*

“Xander!”

I swung wildly into the dark, my clenched fist meeting with the side of someone’s jaw. My knuckles cracked against bone, my skin splitting with the impact. I roared with fury, fear, and pain.

I couldn’t see anything. Why couldn’t I see anything? Someone was holding me down, voices erupting nearby, all around.

“Sedate him–”

“Stick him with that needle, and it’ll be the last thing you ever do!”

Adrian’s voice rang through my ears, and I gasped, bucking against whoever or whatever was holding me down.

“I can’t see,” I rasped, whipping my head from side to side, “Adrian!”

“I’m here, Alpha.” I felt Adrian’s grip on my forearm and momentarily relaxed before reality rushed back to me, taking my breath away.

I thrashed against what felt like several people holding me down, the voices surrounding me now shouting in desperation to be heard.

“Xander, listen to me–”

“Where is Lena? Where–where am I?” I cut Adrian off, unable to hide the panic in my voice.

I felt a gentle touch against my cheek, someone with soft, feminine hands. For a moment I thought it was Lena, my heart skipping a beat and then breaking as someone else’s scent hit me.

“Take a breath,” Rosalie whispered, and I did, my body surrendering to her words while my mind fought against them. She reached to the back of my head and fumbled in my hair for a moment, then I felt fabric slide loose and graze my cheekbones as light flooded my eyelids.

I blinked frantically to adjust to the bright light overhead, some kind of lamp shining directly in my face.

My eyes began to adjust to the light as several shadowed figures hovered over me, their faces blurred and distorted.

“Are you going to freak out if we let you go?” Rosalie asked lightly, her voice warm and motherly as she gently tucked a lock of my hair behind my ear.

I shook my head, or attempted to, the act sending a ripple of searing pain down my spine. I felt everyone holding me down ease up on their grip, and I shot straight upward in a seated position, screaming in agony.

“Damnit–his sutures!”

“Xander, lay back down!”

“Xander, listen to me–”

spots. I fell back again,

Night Realm–”

as though I was a sleepy child, her touch the only thing keeping me shaking

“You’re in Breles, Xander.”

I blinked into the light, my vision clearing enough to catch a glimpse of him standing behind several

I asked stupidly. My ears began to ring violently, and I couldn’t hear his reply, but based on the look in his eyes, I was sure that I’d split my knuckles open on his jaw only minutes

Oliver hissed as he was nudged hard in the ribs by none other than his mother,

the shredded canvas ceiling. I could see the stars above me, the sky fading into dawn. I was in a tent–one of the war tents in the camp

with blood. His eyes were narrowed on me, but not in a menacing way. He was watching

what I saw when I looked down at my body. I gasped, then panicked, and hands came flying to hold me down

criss-crossed bandages. I didn’t know what my face looked like, and maybe it was a good thing, because when Adrian let

shredded. I’d been flayed

had three doses of my blood,” Rosalie said, giving me a weak smile. “It… it

happened? How did I get

long story,”

a careful look, and Oliver’s eyes dropped to

the f**k

male voice from just outside the

stepped away, speaking in low tones as she retreated out of sight. Through the ringing in my ears, I could hear

said flatly, his voice void of

“Lena–”

I didn’t recognize as he held my gaze for a moment longer, then

moment before the healer cleared his throat. “I really need to continue patching him up,” he said, every word laced with annoyance. I hadn’t registered the Egoren warriors standing in the group until Adrian tilted his head toward the tent flap, and six men walked outside–guards.

vampires are still

his back to us and began rifling through a cart of supplies. “It’s nearly morning. It won’t

audibly as the healer, who I hadn’t seen step toward me again, retreated a few steps, a syringe in

told you–” Adrian growled, nearly foaming at the mouth with

can’t be awake for

in my throat as I painfully turned my head to look

“For what? What–”

body, threatening to take me under. I fought against the darkness

habit, but before I succumbed to sedation, I reached up to touch Lena’s mark on

flowed beneath my gentle touch. I met nothing but open flesh, and

“No!”

your eyes, Xander,” Rosalie said,

over my body, I could feel the anger roiling. Her mark, her mark that

light above me began to fade. I might have screamed. I might have roared like the wolf struggling to

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he returning to the camp?” I asked the healer, a different one from the man who’d

somewhat plain face but striking dark brown eyes, only shrugged at my inquiry. “This is war. There is no schedule,” she

teeth as she pulled the blood soaked bandages from my chest,

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