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–”

I fell back again, panting as heat coursed over my skin. I felt everything–every scratch, every bruise, every break…

Realm–”

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

“You’re in Breles, Xander.”

clearing enough to catch a glimpse of him standing behind

ring violently, and I couldn’t hear his reply, but based on the look in his eyes,

ribs by none other than

above me, the sky fading into dawn. I was in a tent–one of the war tents

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

then panicked, and hands came flying to hold

bare and wrapped in criss-crossed bandages. I didn’t know what my face looked like, and maybe it was a good thing, because when Adrian let go of my arm again I reached up to touch my cheek, then my forehead, and felt along the thick bandages wrapped around my

shredded. I’d

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

How

a long

and

f**k

came a male voice from just outside

direction and she stepped away, speaking in low tones as she retreated out of sight. Through the ringing

Oliver said flatly,

“Lena–”

eyes that I didn’t recognize as he held my gaze for a moment longer, then he walked away, pushing

watch Oliver go. Everyone was silent for a 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

are

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

the healer, who I hadn’t seen step toward me again, retreated a few

just f*****g told you–” Adrian growled, nearly foaming at the mouth

can’t be awake for this,” the healer

my throat as I painfully

“For what? What–”

me under. I fought against

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

flowed beneath my gentle touch. I met nothing but open

“No!”

Xander,” Rosalie said, her voice

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

began to fade. I might have screamed. I might have roared like the wolf

***

returning to the camp?” I asked the healer, a different one from the man who’d done his best to sew the

older woman with a round, somewhat plain face but striking dark brown eyes, only shrugged at my inquiry. “This

blood soaked bandages from my chest, revealing deep, jagged puncture

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