บททั้งหมดของ Marked by fate: บทที่ 311 - บทที่ 320

Max's POV:I don’t really know what’s happening.At first there’s only heat, steam, and the dull roar of water hitting tile, and for a few long, useless seconds I can’t work out why I’m wet, or why I’m upright, or why my skin feels raw. Then something moves over me again, brisk and impersonal, and the truth of it catches up slowly enough to make me want to laugh and die at the same time.I’m standing in a shower while someone washes me.Fuck.Maybe this is a new low. Maybe I’m already past lows and this is just where I live now.My head is still thick with drink, my thoughts sliding away from me as fast as they form. I’m vaguely aware of retching again, one hand braced against the wall while bright green bile burns its way up my throat and into the spray. The water beats over me while I’m sick, washing it away before I can really look at it, and for a second, I just stand there panting with my forehead against the tile, trying to remember how breathing works.Then the water shifts.Th

Max's POV:It’s so fucking bright in here. Why? Why is this place burning my retinas?!I stare around blindly, but I can’t make sense of my surroundings. Everything is white and blurry, though the smell hits me before anything else does. Disinfectant, with sickness and death lurking underneath it. I think hard, trying to force my brain to work through the haze, and the only place I know that smells like this is the hospital.But why are we at the hospital?“Alpha, Deltas, Gammas, second floor,” a voice says.I try to work out who it belongs to, but my eyes won’t focus and my head’s not helping by looking in the right direction. We’re moving again, and the brightness is making my head pound even harder. I hear a pinging sound, and the floor wobbles beneath me. I stumble, and hands steady me.Fuck.Why is the floor moving?The ping comes again, and I’m pushed forwards, lurching as my legs resist the movement.That’s when I catch it.The faint, tantalising whiff of jasmine.My whole body

Thor's POVDry mouth, I lick lips, jaw cracking. Face hurts. Body hurts. I try to move, but I can’t. I try again. My body is bound. I struggle, legs pulling, pain biting through them. I put strength into it, muscles surging, but the confining feeling is awful, frightening. I growl with effort and feel the slightest give, but nothing comes of it except more pain in my legs.I open senses.Head hurts, ache pounding inside skull. Bright white room. Bars, and a glass wall. I sniff. Sharp metallic smell, painful... silver. Antiseptic. Blood.A cell then.The light is bright and hurts my eyes. Red blinking light in the corner.I roll and manage to lie on my stomach. Legs are chained together, not silver, but strong... too strong for me. Throat dry. Mouth feels foul. Headache. Stomach rumbles.Hungry.How long have I been here? Where am I?Did I lose time again? Or something else?Memory feels blank. I close eyes and think.Something stirs where Tobias used to be.Is that him?I feel somethin

Zahra's POVDr Jarvis clears his throat lightly, and I turn my attention back to him.“So, your scans show several injuries that are not fully healed. The most noticeable are your cheekbone and some ribs. Your ankle is almost fully repaired, but I’m not happy with the fracture line, and I think we need to keep an eye on it, or maybe pin it to stabilise it until it’s finished. Once your nutrition is back where it should be, I’d hope many of the injuries will be finished off by your wolf, but your cheek and ribs need intervention. You have a bone fragment floating near your eye cavity that’s too close for comfort, and your ribs are not fully connected on one side. With the movement from your breathing, they can’t fully heal. I’m surprised you’re not in agony, to be honest.”A low growl rumbles beside me before he’s even finished, and Max’s arm tightens around me carefully, drawing me a little closer against his side as if he can shield me from the words themselves. Xander goes very stil

Zahra's POVI’m also too tired to really process it.“Come on, baby, let’s get you in the bath,” Max says gently, stepping back slightly before dropping to the floor in front of me. His eyes stay on mine, and my breathing quickens as I watch him kneel there.I feel Xander move closer beside me, and he lifts my shirt over my head. With the IV lines I can’t get my arm free, so he shifts a claw and slices through the sleeve to release it.My eyes widen slightly at that, but the embarrassment I expect doesn’t come.Xander’s eyes stay on mine for a beat.Then I feel hands at my hips and glance down to see Max tugging at my shorts. I lift my hips slightly, warm arms coming around my back to steady me as Xander stops me from toppling backwards into the bath. Max slides my shorts down, his gaze never leaving my face.He doesn’t look at my body.For some reason, that feels more intense than if he had.I swallow, and something in Max’s eyes darkens. My pulse spikes, heat spreading through me in