All Chapters of Marked By The Four: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Rafe’s POVThe hallway felt too damn small for four full-grown alphas and four full-grown wolves losing their minds.Jaxon wore a path into the floor, pacing like a caged storm. Maddox leaned against the wall but kept cracking his knuckles hard enough to break bone. Calder’s wolf hovered just under his skin, eyes glowing gold. And me?I stood by the bedroom door listening for Rayna’s heartbeat like my life depended on it. Because it did.Every time her breath hitched, my wolf slammed against my ribs.“She’s in pain. Go to her,” he snarled.“We can’t,” I muttered aloud, dragging a hand over my face. “Lana said to give her space.”My wolf growled, unimpressed. “I don’t care what she said.”Neither did I.Every instinct in me screamed to barge through the door and bury myself beside Rayna, skin to skin, until the pain stopped. But the healer needed her calm, still.Not four frantic mates vibrating like ticking bombs.The door finally creaked.Lana stepped out, wiping her hands on a towel

Jaxon POVSilence shouldn’t weigh this much.But it pressed on my shoulders the moment I stepped into the ruined hallway, like the whole damn pack house was holding its breath - scared that if it exhaled, everything would crumble for good.Evelynn hadn’t moved for hours.Lana knelt at her bedside, one hand around Evelynn’s wrist, the other running gently over her forearm like she could coax her back to consciousness.Her voice was soft, cracked around the edges.“Come on, sweetheart… fight your way back. Your mates and pack needs you.”She didn’t stir.Her IV line dripped steadily. Too steadily. Too quiet.Maddox leaned against the wall, arms crossed so hard his muscles shook with the tension. Calder stood to my left, staring at the window like something might come through it at any second.I looked at her through the open doors - our Luna. The heartbeat of this pack. The girl we all swore to protect even before any bond marks were burned into our skin.She was breathing. But she wasn

Evelynn POVThe Codex froze the instant the door burst open. One moment it throbbed with faint silver light on the floor, like a heartbeat not entirely its own. The next, the glow snapped shut as if someone had thrown a blanket over its soul.My breath hitched. The room went still. Too still.Then the boys rushed in. Four Alphas moving as one, fury and fear radiating off them like heat.Rafe was at my side first. His hand cupped my jaw, thumb brushing under my cheekbone as if checking I was real. “Rayna,” he exhaled. “Moon above, Love… don’t scare us like that again.”His forehead leaned to mine, not touching, trembling in the space between.A shiver ran down my skin. “I’ll try,” I whispered. “I’m just glad I can see you all again.”But the moment the words left my mouth, the bond pulled. Hard. Like all four of them exhaled their terror at once.Maddox was next.He slid a hand behind my back, lifting me gently, like he thought I might shatter. His scent washed over me - smoke, metal, t

I stepped closer. My knees wobbled, but Maddox’s hand at my back kept me upright.“What’s your name?”“Thalen,” he said. “I… I waited for you.”My breath caught. “Waited?”He nodded. His voice cracked as he whispered, “She said you’d come back.”My wolf’s ears snapped up. “Who? The witch?” I asked.The boy swallowed. Hard. Then noded. “ Y-Yes. The witch.”A cold ripple slid down my spine like a wet hand.Jaxon’s snarl ripped the air. “She should be dead.”Thalen flinched at the sound. I stepped between them, glaring. “Jaxon.”He shut up instantly.The boy’s fingers twisted in his blanket. “She… she didn’t let us die. She hid us. Me and her.” He pointed at the older woman - who squeezed his hand.“She said she owed me because I tried to help her,” he continued quietly. “She healed my leg. She told me to stay quiet. And when she left-” His voice broke. “When she left she said, ‘Tell Evelynn I will come back for her.’”Silence. Thick. Suffocating. My wolf growled low, a sound full of wa

Evelynn POVThe room grew quieter after the Jax and Maddox left with the riders to chck the rest of the territory and how much we can save. The rumble of engines faded down the ruined path, leaving only the crackle of unstable beams and the soft hum of the Codex behind me.Rafe and Calder stayed.I didn’t tell them to. They didn’t ask. They just took positions - one sitting on the edge of my bed, the other leaning against the wall like a living barricade - watching me with two very different kinds of worry.Calder’s the wildfire kind. Rafe’s the storm-that-holds kind.My wolf huffed softly. “They don’t know what to do with their hands.” I didn’t either.I stared at the window, the broken glass still glittering with residue of magic and moonlight. My body should’ve felt devastated. Shredded. The loss of a pregnancy should’ve gutted me. But instead… all I felt was a strange, echoing quiet.Empty. But not broken.Rafe noticed first. “You’re too still,” he murmured. “Tell me what’s going