My eyes slowly peeled open after feeling a very familiar crick in my neck. I groaned and squeezed my eyes shut again realizing I was back in my own room in my own bed. I must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed because as soon as I woke up, I felt mad for absolutely no reason. I brought my hands up to rub my sore neck, but regretted it instantly.
As soon as my hand made contact with the base of my neck, tingles shot through my neck and hand. Naturally, I spazzed not expecting the familiar feeling which caused the crick in my neck to scream out in pain.
"Ah," I groaned out squeezing my eyes shut even tighter as I tried ignoring the pain of a broken neck. "Who the hell?" I asked aloud to literally no one. My eyes snapped open in realization as I remembered everything from what I assume was yesterday. Kieran snapped my neck.
That bitch.
I angrily sat up and ripped the sheets off of myself. I was about to charge off of the bed, but I had to take a small break when the crick in my neck thought it was necessary to start hurting again. Once the pain in my neck went away, I stood up off of the bed and made my way to the bathroom. Thankfully, I didn't have to take a break for my neck again.
I stopped in front of the mirror and squinted noticing the way my shirt was sticking to the base of my neck. I pulled away my shirt to reveal something that startled me.
No, I was completely thrown off.
On the base of my neck was a bite mark. It was obvious that it was a bite mark. You could see all of the teeth indents from the culprit. I didn't know what freaked me out, though. The fact that you could tell something with very sharp canines had bitten a good portion of my neck, or the fact that the bite mark was completely healed and had already scarred over. I gulped and touched the mark again. I never had a scar.
The same tingles shot through me from earlier when my hand came in contact with it making my wolf hum quite loudly.
In that moment, I heard my door open quite swiftly if I may add.
"Eli's here," Eli shouted out. Why was he in such a good mood? Damn, why was I in such a bad one?
Pushing away my own thoughts, I walked out of the bathroom and stopped in the doorway with my shirt still tugged down. Eli was standing there with a mega watt smile that disappeared when his eyes landed on me. Well, my neck. His icy, blue eyes widened, and his jaw clenched.
"I think Kieran bit me," I stated accusingly as I could feel the anger that flooded my system spewing out. Eli walked over to me swiftly. He stopped directly in front of me and pulled the shirt completely away from the Kieran's bite mark. He looked at it intently for a moment before his face turned angry. His jaw clenched even tighter as a growl ripped through the room. It startled me seeing as I had never seen Eli actually get mad.
"What do you mean you think he bit you?" I could hear the anger in Eli's voice which made my wolf mad. She growled which in turn fueled my angry fire that I still had no clue why it was even present.
"There's a spark," I snapped at him. "Got any other people that can cause that besides my mate?" Eli glared up at me obviously not appreciating my tone with him. My features softened knowing he was only trying to help. I sighed and pulled away from him. I pulled my shirt back up to cover Kieran's bite.
"When we were training-well, we didn't even really train," I trailed off getting angry recalling the fact that not only did he bite me, but he snapped my neck which cut our time together by a lot. Eli looked at me with a face that just screamed 'will you just get on with the story'. I cleared my throat and touched the bite through the shirt. The sparks were still there, but they were much more subtle. "We were...talking," I lied. I wasn't about to tell my brother that Kieran and I had a brief make out in the training room. "He grabbed my face and said something like 'I'm only doing this because I love you'. I thought he was going to kiss me, but no! His teeth went all psycho, and he snapped my neck! Then, I woke up with a stiff neck and a huge bite mark! He could have killed me!" I shouted growing angry again. Was he trying to kill me? I can honestly say that the thought of Kieran wanting to kill me hadn't crossed my mind in a while.
My angry thoughts were interrupted by Eli's angry growl.
"That bastard knew exactly what-" Eli started to say, but stopped when I let out an 'oomph'. An intense feeling came out of no where. It felt like someone kicked me in my stomach. I bent over and clutched it. Eli was at my side in a second. His hand was on my shoulder making sure not to touch the bite. He crouched slightly so that he somewhat matched my height in the position that I was in.
"Shit, we have to go," Eli said as he tugged on my arm. I looked up at him and furrowed my brows.
"Why-" I couldn't finish my sentence before another wave of pain rushed over me. This time it was in my head. It made my vision go fuzzy and my ears ring. Whatever it was, was extremely close to completely knocking me out. A growl ripped through the room. I hadn't even realized it was coming from me until Eli stumbled back a bit. I was overwhelmingly confused by the situation. My wolf wasn't even trying to take over.
"What's happening to me?" I cried out as I pressed my hands against my temples trying to push away the dizziness.
"We thought he only snapped your neck. Mom's livid," Eli said quickly. His hand gripped my wrist as he drug me out of the room. My feet lead me to wherever Eli drug me. That was until another wave of pain washed over my left leg making it feel like pins and needles. I dropped to the floor and cried out gripping my jello leg. Eli spun around and picked me up. I was worried that I was too heavy for him, but that proved to be a stupid thing to worry about. Eli ran through the pack house easily with me in his arms as I gripped whatever limb or part of my body hurt.
Another wave of pain hit and rang through my head causing me to squeeze my eyes shut just as Eli burst through a door.
"Stop!" He shouted. I could feel the few rogue tears that left my eyes as the pain kept getting worse. The salty taste of one of them entered my mouth as my lip trembled from the pain in my head.
I slowly opened my eyes to see the scene in front of me. Jale, Alex, Greyson, Trevor, a lady with long, dark hair, and Kieran were all in the room. Kieran was sitting on the floor with his back pressed to the wall. My heart ached seeing him as the thoughts of what he had done to me vanished.
His lip was busted and bleeding as was his nose. His black eye was growing even darker and a new bruise was forming on the right side of his jaw. He no longer had a shirt on, so I could clearly see the bruising on his stomach and right pectoral. Alex stood over him angrily. You could see the fire in her eyes as she towered over Kieran's battered form. My jaw clenched seeing Kieran's hands were roped together. It made anger flame within me knowing they were beating him to death, and he couldn't even fight back.
Alex had a new scratch on the opposite side of her face from her old scars. It was a pretty deep gash that cut into her cheek. This woman seemed to have a scar collection growing on her face. Jale's lip was busted as well. Not as bad as Kieran's, but it certainly looked like it hurt. There were some scratches on his right bicep. One of them trailed its way down to his wrist. Greyson and the girl seemed to be okay, but Trevor had a few scratches on his chest. They weren't entirely visible. They were just managing to peak out through the fabric of his grey shirt. Other than that, Kieran was the only person severely hurt. I could also faintly smell Marilyn which scared me. What had they done to her in here?
Everyone's attention was on Eli and I. I pushed their stares away as I could feel my anger begin to bubble. My wolf was two seconds away from surfacing. She wanted to make sure her mate was okay. I pushed myself out of Eli's grip as all of the pain seemed to disappear from my body. I hadn't even noticed the crick in my neck as I raced over to Kieran. It was honestly the quickest I've ever ran, and I had a feeling the inhuman speed was coming from my wolf.
A growl ripped through the room as I crouched down and held Kieran's bruised face in my hands. I turned to see who it was. Jale was taking long strides toward Kieran and I until Eli was in front of him.
"No," Eli shouted at Jale which seemed to take Jale back a bit. Eli was angry, and it was obvious that no one ever really saw him mad.
"Elijah, what-" Alex started to say before she was interrupted. Worry was laced in her angry tone.
"He marked her," Eli shot out heavily. My eyes widened hearing Eli's words. I recalled Marilyn briefly telling me about marking from when I had first met the small group of shredders. I hadn't realized marking someone involved biting a chunk of their neck. I turned back to Kieran feeling my face pale. I expected his beautiful, green eyes to be looking into mine, but they weren't. They were focused on my neck. They were focused on the bite that was just peeking out of the shirt. They were focused on his mark.
Kieran marked me.
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OH MY GOODNESS I TOLD U ID TRY TO UPDATE TUESDAY HAHABABABABA.
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