Chapter24　Marked

Elijah frowned, the man had clearly lost his sanity as he spewed nonsense, his eyes fixed on

Scarlett.

“I would never side with you and your sadistic ways.” Scarlett said.

“Yes, you willl I am the reason you are on this fucking earth!” He hissed, his canines elongating.

“Keep pissing me off and it'll be your heart I tear out!” Scarlett shot back, her eyes turning a

steely silver. Even her wolf seemed on edge. She could feel her anger towards Zidane, although her

presence only became known in her head when she turned 18 she knew the pain this man had

caused Scarlett. The abuse she had suffered at this man's hand, most that she had blocked out, to

the extent even her own mother never knew of. But she wouldn't be afraid of him, not anymore, she

wasn't a little girl anymore.

Zidane growled in anger, his Alpha aura rolling off him in waves. Elijah was next to follow,

staring him down but all eyes turned to Scarlett, the strong energy that rolled off her was growing

stronger and more noticeable, perhaps not as strong as Zidane's or Elijah’s but it was impressive.

“So, it's true...” Zidane said, once again his anger vanished and was replaced by a mad glint of

excitement in his eyes. Walking around the table he inched closer to her, Elijah growled warning him

to stay back. Sensing something from behind Elijah spun around as the woman and Cade had

moved to lunge at them with syringes containing wolfsbane.

In a flash Elijah transformed into his huge light brown wolf, slamming Cade across the room

with his paw. Cade shifted into his own wolf, leaping back at him although he was visibly smaller

than Elijah. Elijah growled, flinging the woman across the room with one swift swipe. She went flying

but was up instantly, she may not have had her wolf but she was strong.

Scarlett looked at Zidane. “I came here as you wanted and you thought you could try to

double-cross me? Fuck this!” She spat.

She shouldn't even be surprised she thought, what more could she have expected from him?

He had always been a psychotic monster. She ran at her father just as Elijah shouted at her to be

careful through the mind link.

Scarlett ignored him, shifting mid-air into her stunning silver-grey wolf. Zidane watched in

crazed awe as she lunged at him, he didn't shift, his eyes trained on the huge wolf that lunged at

him. Raising his hand he grabbed her by the neck, the force of her lunge knocking him back a few

steps but he retained his balance.

His hand partially shifting, squeezing her neck. Before he could do more Elijah’s wolf knocked

into him, throwing him to the ground, a dangerous growl ripped through the room. Elijah’s enraged

eyes glaring into Zidane's strangely calm yet excited eyes.

They could just end this now Elijah thought, ready to tear his head off. Cade barrelled into him,

knocking him off Zidane just as the door burst open and several other wolves burst into the room,

rushing to their Alpha.

Scarlett leapt past them, her speed impressive. They shifted aiming to protect Zidane. Scarlett

growled, her Alpha power rolling off them making them hesitate, feeling the pressure.

Zidane watched her, even though he was commanding his men, her link to the pack was

making them hesitate. His manic smile plastered on his face never faltered, even when she slashed

him across his chest, rage burning within her. He simply watched, welcoming the pain as if he were

looking at a miracle before him. Two wolves lunged on her back and Elijah who was fighting four,

threw them off coming to assist her.

In the commotion no one noticed the woman grabbing the wolfsbane syringe, making her way

to Scarlett in a robotic-like trance. Her aim and her order were to inject Scarlett and she would do as

she was commanded no matter the cost.

Her eyes never left the silver wolf as she inched closer, more wolves were joining the fight and

Zidane simply stood there watching in manic ecstasy at the bloody mess before him. Three wolves

were already dead, one by Scarlett's hand the other two by Elijah’s. Things had gotten messy fast.

“Red!’ Elijah shouted through the link seeing the woman lunge at Scarlett but it was too late,

she stabbed the syringe into her. Just as she did Elijah bit into her waist, shaking her viciously and

crushing her bones within his mouth as he tossed her to the ground like a rag doll. Scarlett’s wolf

crumpled to the ground as she was forced to shift to human form.

“Fuck...” She groaned feeling the wolfsbane burn her insides, it felt like an inferno was building

within her. She tried to push herself to her feet, her vision swaying. She saw Elijah fighting the

wolves, growling, his Alpha power weighing down on them but their own alpha’s orders overruled

Elijah’s. They would fight the Alpha wolf until they or he were dead.

She looked at Zidane who now grabbed her by her arm, dragging her to her feet.

“You are mine.” He said, his voice echoing in the room like a sinister promise of doom. His

canines elongated.

Elijah turned his eyes, widening in horror as he realised what the Alpha was about to do... and

there was no chance that he would reach her in time. Rushing towards them he could only watch as

Zidane viciously ripped into Scarlett's neck where her mate was meant to mark her, tearing through

her creamy neck violently as he forced his mark upon her.

She screamed in pain as her vision blackened. Elijah’s deafening howl echoed in the room,

seeing red as he ripped through the wolves heartlessly. Lunging at Zidane, only for three more

wolves to block him. He looked at Scarlett's bloody body that lay crumpled on the floor, her eyes

filled with pain but she was losing consciousness, only her sheer willpower kept her awake.

He knew he needed to get her out of there before things got worse. As Zidane made to pick

her up Elijah slammed him across the room, glad when he hit the far wall with a sickening crunch.

He grabbed Scarlett's wrist in his mouth, tugging her up and nudging her with his head on to her

back.

“I need you to hold on sweetheart,’ He said through the link, his worlds met with a blank, he

couldn't seem to make the connection. With wolfsbane in her system that was to be expected,

nevertheless, she seemed to get the hint.

“Mmbh..." She whispered weakly, she didn't know what Zidane had done to her but her body

was killing, why did he bite her neck? Was he trying to kill her? Through the haze nothing made

sense. She clung to Elijah’s glossy fur trying to remain awake as he flung wolf after wolf aside,

leaping over some, attacking some, and then he began running.

She heard the terrifying howl of her father's wolf, looking through bleary eyes at the pitch-black

beast that was now chasing them. He was huge, not as big as Elijah’s but it was close enough.

“Faster...” She whispered, visions of her as a child and that same black monster of a wolf

chasing her overcame her, as she drifted off to the land between sleep and consciousness, filled

with horrifying nightmares of the past...

Elijah ran as fast as he could, he could feel them gaining but he wouldn't be defeated. As an

Alpha, it wasn't in his nature to run but right now he didn't really have a choice. Hearing howls

ahead he hoped Rafael the Alpha of the pack who was assisting was near. He burst from the pack

grounds, seeing the 5 men standing there with 15 shifted wolves.

“Elijah!” Rafael said, seeing the bloody woman that was on his back. Elijah growled

remembering Scarlett was naked, Rafael raised his hands motioning to some jeeps parked close by.

“Let's go!”

Elijah shifted, lifting Scarlett into one jeep, someone was already in the driver. Rafael jumped in

the front ordering his men to retreat and cover them. Once the car was zooming off, Elijah turned

Scarlett in his arms looking at the bite mark on her neck.

He marked her.

The very statement made him feel numb. The sheer weight of the consequences hitting him.

Only a person's true mate can remove another wolves mark... Even Jessica still had Zidane's mark.

It meant he himself, could never remove it for Scarlett... Where he had wanted to mark her and

make her his Luna... Now without her true mate this mark would always stain her neck... It angered

him, he hated the fact that they had ever walked into the Desert Storm Pack so recklessly...

A thought entered his mind and he knew it was from his wolf

“Maybe... they could be mates..." He felt an ache in his chest, that would be a fucking dream

come true... He felt her forehead, she was sweating, her skin looking paler by the second. He kissed

her forehead tenderly.

Rafael tossed him a shirt and pants.

“Care to share why the hell you're on Zidane Malone's bad side?” He asked, wincing at the

thought of angering the dangerous Alpha.

“I'm sorry for getting you involved...” Elijah said pulling the shirt that smelt of Rafael over

Scarlett's head. As much as he hated another male's scent on her, he preferred her covered. Still

holding her, he pulled the pants on himself.

“It's cool I owe you my life.” Rafael said grinning, pulling his curly black shoulder-length hair

into a ponytail. “I never knew you found your mate...”

“She... she isn't...” Elijah said feeling a pang at the very thought. “But I'm going to make her my

Luna.”

Rafael looked surprised but said nothing. He looked at the woman in Elijah’s arms, seeing the

concern and worry marring his friends face, something he had never seen from the usually rather

arrogant Alpha.

“What the fuck is that....?" Elijah murmured, his eyes fixated on Scarlett's neck. Rafael turned, an

eerie silence filled the car as the two Alphas looked at something. The man driving glanced at his

Alpha, seeing his face filled with worry...

The wound on Scarlett's neck was closing up but under her skin black root-like veins were

spreading from the bite mark, going up her neck and around her shoulder, visibly pulsating as if

they were alive...00