Semua Bab Marked by fate: Bab 601 - Bab 610

Zahra's POVAs I pull away from Elliot, I hear the first scream.Every head snaps towards the sound, and the entire mood changes in a fucking second. Elliot releases me, my mates move closer, and the warriors around us are already turning towards the disturbance when a mind link slams into the pack link.‘Rogues! Rogues attacking from the south-east!’Lincoln growls.“Shit. They're here,” I say.The screaming gets louder as more and more people start to run away from the attacking rogues.Lincoln's hand clamps around mine, and we take off running. Several of the Task Force warriors around us shift and sprint off in wolf form towards the disturbance. We've already discussed that I'm not to shift unless it's absolutely necessary, and it appears my mates are going to stick to that as well. We run together, their units with us.Zanthe is agitated, pacing inside my head. She wants out badly enough that I can feel her pushing against my skin, but I can't let her White Wolf be seen unless we

Xander's POVMy arms are trembling as I place Max carefully down on the examination table inside the treatment room the nurse showed us into.At first, I think it's because he's so heavy, but once I step back, I realise my entire body is shaking. I clench my fists, trying to make the fucking shaking stop. It doesn't. Fuck, I need to pull myself together. I'm furious with him. I'm an Alpha. I shouldn't be reacting like a frightened pup.Zach moves beside me, his face grim as we both look down at him. His eyes are half closed, the whites showing, and his face is pale. So fucking pale. The wound on his stomach is trying to heal. I can see the edges are already closer than they were before, but he's still bleeding profusely. The stench of rogues and gore is overwhelming now we're no longer outside, and I try really fucking hard not to gag.“What do you think happened to him? Did he have to run through an advance party or something?” Zach asks under his breath as the doctor starts barking

Xander's POVWe watch as the doctor slowly and painstakingly stitches Max back together. The abdominal wound requires some frankly rather disgusting internal stitches that Zach had to step out for, but despite my roiling stomach, I stayed and held on to Zahra.The doctor said something about the tear in his spleen being small enough to repair here, but that under normal circumstances Max would already be in surgery.There aren't normal circumstances anymore.There's an army coming, most of Shadow is already preparing to leave, and apparently, we're standing here watching someone stitch my mate's fucking insides together because we don't have time for anything else.Zahra's fear keeps pouring through the bond in sickening waves, every fresh movement of the doctor's hands making it spike. Sometimes I don't know where her fear ends and mine begins.I have to hold her because she feels like she's about to disintegrate into pieces.I do too.So I tighten my arms around her and keep her aga

Zahra's POVI watch as Zach and Oscar help Xander and the nurses wheel the hospital bed out towards the waiting SUV. They've collapsed the back seats down and removed one of the middle row, then the warriors have laid some of the hospital bed mattresses down to make a sort of makeshift bed.Seeing Max like this makes something inside me ache. I've spent weeks trying not to think about what it would feel like to see him again, and in every version that managed to creep into my head, he was still the same huge, strong, infuriating Alpha who walked away from me.Not this.Not unconscious, pale and covered in bandages while four people carefully manoeuvre him into the back of a fucking car because he's too badly injured to move himself.I have no idea where the bags that were in the trunk have gone, but I'm hoping they were just moved into the truck before the others left. To be honest, right now, that's the least of my worries.“I've given him a bolus of sedation and pain relief, so he s

Zahra's POVOnce we're out of the gate, the road is fairly straight...Zanthe is pacing, her ears swivelling constantly as she searches for threats, but she's quiet now, keeping her anger to herself until we make it to safety.We reach the pack gates. They're still open from when the others left. The open gates look fucking wrong. Shadow has spent generations keeping enemies out, and now we're driving away and leaving the front door wide open.There's no point closing them. It's not like the gates would keep an entire rogue army out for long anyway.We slow fractionally to make the ninety-degree turn onto the main road, but not much. I glance back and see the trucks behind us swinging wildly as they make the turn.Now we're on the main road, the wolves move to the verge and the edge of the trees. Strictly speaking, they should be running through the trees, away from prying human eyes, but there's no way any of them will do that today. And I doubt Edwardo will order it, even if we pass