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,

Realm–”

child, her touch the only thing keeping

“You’re in Breles, Xander.”

was Oliver’s voice, muffled and wet like he was speaking with a mouth full of water. I blinked into the light, my vision clearing enough to catch a glimpse of him standing behind several unfamiliar people. He was pressing an ice pack to his jaw, his skin sporting a deep purple

My ears began to ring violently, and I couldn’t hear his reply, but based on the look in his

ribs by none other than his mother, who was hovering next to him, pale as

I was in

locked eyes with a man dressed in a white coat soiled with blood. His eyes were narrowed on me, but not in a menacing way. He was watching

body. I gasped, then

I didn’t know what my face looked like, and maybe it was a good thing,

I’d been

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

the f**k happened? How did I get

long story,” Oliver

and Oliver’s eyes dropped

the f**k

a male voice from just outside

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

Oliver said flatly,

“Lena–”

He straightened up, something flashing in his eyes that I didn’t recognize as he held my gaze for a moment longer, then he walked away, pushing through the crowd of

he said, every word laced with annoyance. I hadn’t registered the Egoren warriors standing in the group until Adrian tilted his head

vampires are still

back,” Rosalie replied, nodding at the healer, who turned his back to us and began rifling through a cart of supplies. “It’s nearly morning. It won’t be much longer until we can… until we can announce a

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

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

for this,”

against the panic rising in my throat as I painfully turned my head to look up at Adrian, who

“For what? What–”

my body, threatening to take me under. I fought against the darkness creeping into my mind, the numbness making it hard to

or maybe habit, but before I succumbed to

beneath my gentle touch. I met nothing

“No!”

eyes, Xander,” Rosalie said, her

a strained, forced whisper. Through the numbness taking over my body, I could feel the anger roiling. Her mark, her mark that had cemented us as mates–it was f*****g gone, cut out of me, torn from

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 done his best to sew the gaping hole in my shoulder together only

at my inquiry. “This is war. There is no schedule,” she replied tersely, motioning for me to relax so she could redress

blood soaked bandages from my chest, revealing deep, jagged

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