Something snapped, and Xavier comes to consciousness again. His eyes are gold again, as he looks around.
Where is he? He was near Starbucks earlier.He still here?
Then, he realised something and frantically looking around.
He sighed a breath of relief. No one die, thank Goddess.
Unconsciously, he tightened his grip on something.
He looked down.
"Huh? Xavia?"
She still in his arms. But she was unconscious. And....
He sniffed the air.
Why, he feels somehow she smells a lot better?
She wasn't stinks, of course. She smells sweet before, and he liked it. But now, her smells is a lot stronger, and given that he is a werewolf, her scent now clouding his mind.
He adjusted her in his arms and picked her up, ready to go home before suddenly a bad headache came onto him.
"Arghh!" he groaned.
Memories of what happened earlier came flooding in, and he stared wide-eyed to her. He focus on her neck.
Did he.... marked her?
Oh my.
He coughed violently, his cheeks red as he replaying his memories earlier. What have he done? He marked her! And, why is he remembering that right now?
Usually, when he was in his 'dark state' as he calls it, he won't remember what was happening afterwards. In the past, when he would come to his right mind, and saw corpses in front of him, and didn't remember what happened.
And that's that.
But now...
He looks down at her, and he is blushing again. He finally marked her!
But why...she fainted right now?
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"I want this proposal on my table first thing in the morning tomorrow."he ordered his employee. His voice indicating there's discussion.
With cold and aloof gaze, he glances around the room, seizing every person alive in the magnificent room.
"This project is really important for the company. I don't want any of you to take this lightly, ", he uncrossed his legs, sitting straighter, approving his seriousness, "unless you want to get fired, up to you.I don't care." he shrugged carelessly, staring everyone down.
Everyone was trembling,shrinking back in the seat and keeping their eyes glued on the table, for fear making an eye contact with their icy boss. Today, their handsome boss is colder, and more ruthless. They won't even take a risk to look him in the eye.
"Meeting adjourned." he dismissed, immediately stands up and exited the room, followed by his assistant.
Upon hearing their boss footsteps slowly faded away, they almost sighed a breath of relief at the same time.
After all, its certainly a big relief to finally escape from their cruel boss.
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"Hey, Xavia! Here, here! Pass it to me!" a boy shouted to her, waving his hands in the air as he urged her.
She smirked mischievously, looked at the boy and raising the ball in her hands toward him, before she throw to another direction.
"Ahh!Xavia bad! Bad! Bad!!" the boy sulked, but quickly ran off to the ball, trying to snatch it from the other boy's hand.
Another boy came joined in the little ruckus, jumping on their little feet, stretching their little arms high to grab the ball from the older boy, but not high enough to actually snatch it.
The older boy suddenly threw it to a girl quiet far from them. But because she was too engrossed in looking at something, the ball hit her on the head, and the girl stumbled down to the ground with a thud.
"Thia! You alright?!" Xavia ran to the little girl's side, checking her condition.
She started to sob, "Brother Vion evil! Waaa!" she wailed, her nose was running alongside her tears.
Thumping footsteps near them, as suddenly they were surrounded by the boys.
The older boy kneeled on her other side, patting her head, an effort to coax her to stop crying.
"I'm sorry. I thought you saw it coming. Don't cry, okay? I'll give you a candy later. So, don't cry okay?" he coaxed.
The girl instantly stopped crying, looking up at him with a smile, bobbing her head up and down repeatedly. "Want want want!!" she clapped her hands in excitement.
"Brother Vion, I want it too!"
"Yeah! Me too, me too!"
"Big brother, I want it too!" Xavia joined in with other boys, raising her hand too, demanding for his attention too.
The older boy thought for a while, before he nodded.
"Okay, but just one for each person. Mother would notices it if I take more." he said in a hushed tone.
The younger kids nodded eagerly, putting their chubby little hand on their mouth.
"Ha, what are you guys doing?Whispering like that?" a suspicious voice of an adult man came from out of their little circle.
They kids gasped, looking at the tall man.
"Uh-oh, nothing..." the older boy answered nervously, before he looked at the little boy and girl in the man's arms.
"Little Xidorn, little Yera!" he called, and the other kids came surrounding the man too, reaching to touch the babies little hands and legs, admiring their cuteness.
Xavia too was engrossed with the little babies, before suddenly a loud sound of something exploding was heard from the house.
Smokes started to cloud inside the house, flowing out the windows and door.
"Vion, Xandro, hold them." he passed the little babies to the boys, "I'm gonna check on your mother." he said before rushing to the house.
"Big brother, what happens? I'm scared."
"Nothing is gonna happen." the older boy said quietly, eyes settled on the house.
Not a minute later, the man came out of the house with a woman, running towards them.
"Let's go, kids." the man said, pushing the kids to move.
They didn't question anything, having to understand the lack of need for disturbance.
They went into a car, and the man quickly brought it alive. The man driving fast, as if was chased by someone.
Bang!
The back mirror of the car crashed by a bullet, just inches away from the man's face.
"Shit!" he cursed out in panic, stepping on the brake while his hands fast on the steering wheel, make a drift.
"I'm not letting them get the kids." he spit out.
"We aren't." the woman stated, her voice was calm, but firm, almost domineering.
She grabbed something under the seat, before pushing the button for the window to roll down, before she lets half her body went through, as she raised her hand, aiming to the car behind them.
Another series of bullets was heard as the kids watched the woman shot repeatedly to the car following behind.
It's a gun!
"Vion, remember what I said." the man on the driver seat suddenly said to the older kid, receiving a nod from the kid.
The car speed off, with the car behind follow closely.
As the hope of finally escaped from 'them' glimmered, but just to be put off when another two car joining the chase.
The woman took another gun under her seat, before came out again.
A bullet make through to their car's tyre, sending the car to an uncontrolled state. The screeching sound of the tyre against the road was defeaning, as a couple of shots was heard.
But then, everything was black.
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Xavier looked at the frown his mate made, and he brings his finger over to sooth it out.
He then looks at the man in the other side of the bed, lying unconsciously just like her.
He already brought a doctor to check them out earlier, but the result is nothing. The doctor said they were just fine, nothing wrong. The doctor himself never seen anything like this as he exclaimed.
It's been only a day, but he was really anxious.
After he marked her and she fainted yesterday night, he had brought her to her home, having Daniel to settle her in. Daniel said he would take care of her and asked him to leave.
And he had left after that.
But when he texted him this morning to ask on her condition, he didn't reply.
He just thought maybe Daniel was angry with him for causing his beloved sister to faint. And he had come clean with what happened to her with Daniel.
But when he visited them that evening, Daniel didn't open the door, even answer it. Then, he felt something was wrong. He had someone to help him open the door since it used a password. And then he found Daniel on her bed, unconscious too. And in a pajama already. That means it have been since the morning.
He had called a doctor, but no results.
And now, he was waiting them to wake up.