Marcus p.o.v
After hiding Jacob in the back of the van, we say our goodbyes to the Ivan and head straight back home. "Marcus, are you sure it is a good idea to take him with us?" Author was in the back as he watched Jacob while Jane drives the van. "If he wakes up, just get him to be quiet or not I will deal with him." I look to the back as Author nods and hold onto a bat so he could knock out Jacob in case. It stays silent for a few minutes before the van shakes a bit and I look to the back to see Jacob pinning down Author with the bat to his neck. I sigh as I unbuckle my seatbelt. "Keep the car steady Jane." She nods and I head the back to see Author trying to get Jacob off him. "I asked for once simple thing Author and you completely failed me." Jacob looks towards me and I could see the anger burning thought his eyes. "What the hell is Michael and Alexis at!" He lets go of Author and attacked me full force. I get out of the way and twist his arm in his back. "Calm down Jacob before I throw you out of the van."
He growls as he kicks me back and attack me but I block all his blows. I growl as my eye glow bright golden and my scales glow a bit. I rip easily the side of the van to expose we were on a side of a cliff. I grab Jacob by the collar of his shirt and got him to the edge of the van. He grabbed my wrist since his feet were the only thing that was keeping him from handing out. Author grabs my arm as Jacob looked in panic as if Author was going to help him. "Please don't kill him before you get there." I nod as I turn towards Jacob who had his eyes widen. I push him out and he falls down screaming before I fly down and grab him before he touched the ground. I went high into the air as I looked at him. He was holding onto my arm not letting go as we flew pass tree and mountains. I fly us higher and I stop in the middle air as I pull him up on front of me.
"Listen here Jacob, this stays between us. No must never know how really I am. Michael is my queen and you are to respect her and Axel as well. If I find out someone told Ivan who I am, I will come after you." He looks at me serious and scared as he nods quickly. I smile and fly down on top of my territory. I see a few people point towards the sky and I land down. Little kids smiles and giggled as they attack me with hugs ignoring Jacob. Few guards take Jacob away and I follow them as my wings fold back. All of us has wing as soon as we turn 16 but it looks like Jacob and the rest of other out there can't get them. We reach the castle and I head straight to my room to see Michael still asleep but Axel was awake. He notices me enter and he runs to me and punches my stomach. "Why did you hurt mother! Why!" I hold him down and hug him as he struggled until he broke down and cried. "I am sorry that I hit you." I smile and rub his head. "Its okay Axel, I know you are just protecting your mother and I am as well. you just have to trust me." He nods and I let him go as he cleans his tears away.
"Mother woke up an hours ago asking for you." I nod as I lift him in my arm so he is resting on my waist. "Yeah, but he said you left somewhere." I look towards the weak voice as Michael was awake looking better. I put Alexis down and he runs to the bed. "Mother! Father just came!" My heart jumps a bit as Michael smiles at him and hugs him. "I see Alexis. Could you go get me a bottle of water?" He nods as he gets off the bed and take off running out of the room. I walk up to the bed and side down beside her. I don't look up to her since I knew she was going to take about the mark. "You marked me..... didn't you?" I look at her and I could see the seriousness in her eyes as I slowly nod and looked away from her.
"I know I need your permission for that and I did it because you are causing so much damage. I need to calm you down and the only thing that came up to my mine was to mark you to get you in control. But I have a feeling you don't remember." She shakes her head as I sigh and remove my torn shirt and her eyes land on my shoulder immediately. Her mark stand out and her eye land on it immediately. "I am not made that you mark me instead I am happy to have your mark. I know tht I will treat you well and give you all the love that you need, by I will respect you and give you time to open up to me. I just want to let you know that I don't hate you but I love you." She looks at me in shocked as I kiss her forehead before stand up. "Mark will come and check on you before letting you go. Gets some rest." She doesn't say anything as I grab a shirt before leaving the room and closing the door. I walk through the hall as Alexis comes running with a bottle of water and runs pass me quickly. I head to the lab when I find the team and Jacob chained into a chair which it's inside of a glass container. He had a muzzle around his mouth and he looked to be knocked out. "What the hell happened! I though he was calm when I left him with the guards."
Mark looked at me with an unamused look as he walked out and I look towards Joshua as he had a towel to his arm. I could see blood stain on it and I turn towards Jane who was leaning on the wall by a window. "Jacob here is my mate and attacked Joshua thinking he was my lover or boyfriend." I sigh as Zack helps Joshua with some bandages with wrap his arm. Few minutes later Mark walks in and hand me his report." Michael is okay, she will recover well although I do recommend some bed rest. Jacob on the other hand I found some chemical that was injected in him that caused him not to grow his wing. Whatever chemical it is.....it kills any cells of grown of feature wings. It basically erased it from his DNA like it wasn't there."
I rub my shoulder to ease some small pain and Mark noticed it. "Please I consider you to get some rest as well. You have business meetings tomorrow and you need to rest well." I shake my head at I look towards Jacob who was now staring at me with catious eyes. "Jane, take him out of there and cuff him to a chair." Jane look at me unsure and I nod to her which she sigh. Jacob looked at her confused as she took him out and chain him down to a chair. I rubbed my head as it was starting to pound and it was getting me dizzy. Mark noticed it and hand me a water bottle which I take a sip. "Take off the muzzle as well. He need to answer to me." Jane takes off the muzzle and Jacob look at all of us and then to me. I lean on the table since I was loosing balance quickly and I keep my composure. "I told you to behave but instead you attack one of my men. What the hell are you thinking?" He doesn't say anything which get me angry as I turn towards the table to see a knife. I pick it up and throw it to him which hits his shoulder and he dreams in pain. Jane, Mark and Joshua looked surprised and Jane goes up to defend him. I growl as my scales start to glow as well as my eyes.
She moves back and Jacob looks nervous as I stand up and walk towards him. I grab his chin and make up look towards Jane. "I know she want to help you and get rid of these chain, but she follow order from me before her mate since I am her King. I hope you understand to behave while you are staying here because that will be the only way for you to see Michael or Alexis." He nod and I let him go as I signal two guards and tell them to lock him in a spare room for now.
Jane follow with Zack right behind her which wouldn't be a surprise. Once they left, I calmed down and fell to my knee from the pounding headache and pain from my shoulder. "Marcus, stay here and I will cancel the meetings for today. You are in no condition to go out like this. You need proper rest and nutrition in your body." I shake my head as he help me stand up and get me to a chair. "I need to attend those meeting for benefit for all of us. I am trying to get some land in the south west for a refugee camp, but I need the land." Mark check my temperature and my vitals as well as my eyes. "Your eyes keeps dilating and your have no strength to stand up." I chuckled and stand up before falling back down to the chair.
"Marcus...you told me if you ever went too far that I should stop you. That is what I am telling you now, as your doctor and your member of your team, I ask of you sir to rest and let me cancel the meetings." I look at him as he stared at me with determination and wisdom in his eyes. I smiled as I slowly nodes." Fine.....I will rest." He sighs in relief and help me up. A guard walk in hurry and quickly give me a small bow. "I am sorry to interrupt but your-." He didn't finished as I am pushes hard and slam to the wall with a spear on my stomach. I am in shock as blood poured out of my mouth and I look up to see Amanda standing there with a sad and angry look.
I pull the spear away out and another is thrown at me again. it pierced through my shoulder blades close to my mark and I saw it glow a bit before it faded. "When were you doing to tell me that Daniel was killed!" I pull the spear out again and this time she pin me to the wall with a sword pierced through my stomach again. I chuckle as she twisted it and I grudge. "I didn't say anything because that is the way you would react. So violent that you attack your own brother because you don't know who to blame." Mark and Joshua move to help but I extend my hand out, stopping them from doing anything. "You need to understand Amanda that not everything is my fault. I don't know who leaked the information and I most certainly know that it was someone that knows Michael's history." She looked confused before stabing a knife to my shoulder right on the mark. I wince as I can see it glowing and I know it is not good at all. "Amanda, back away now before you get hurt."
She look at me angrily and push the knife deeper. "You can't do nothing to me Marco. I am your sister." I smile as I ripped my shirt to expose my mark which she looked shocked. "You are nothing to her and she doesn't hold back." Right at that moment Amanda is pulled away from me and send flying toward the other side of the lab. Michael eyes were glowing as well as her mark. Amanda stops herself from crashing to the wall and flea straight to Michael with a sword. It pierced through her stomach and they both go flying out of a window of the castle. I get up and slowly get myself to the window as Michael had Amanda pin to the ground while people started to whisper and pointed at the situation.
I fly down there and everyone gasp at my condition but I was starting to heal slowly. Amanda tried to get Michael off her but Michael was too strong to even budge at all. "Amanda for the love of God stop already! You are making an embarrassment of yourself." She stops and see that people were staring at her. I pull Michael away from her and Michael only growls as Amanda stands up. "I don't care if you are his sister. If I see that you disrespect him or injure him like you just did. I swear that I will kill you without anyone stopping me." Michael's eyes were glowing and very dark as Amanda dusts herself off before her wings spread out and she flies away. I sigh in exhaustion and turn towards Michael who puts herself under my one shoulder and walks me away from the crowd. We make it back inside and she take me to my bed. She walk into the bathroom and walk out with towel, a bowl of water and bandages. I hiss as she starts to clean my wound which they were healing very slowly. "Please tell me that she is your only sister." I laugh a little as I lay my head back. "I have one more sister, but like to stay out of out problems which I respect her. She is a human...my father was a player in his early years and one of his affairs, he got a young woman pregnant while my mother was pregnant with me. We are only about few months apart, but we try our best to stay in contact at least. she is coming tomorrow to check on you since you are part of the family now." She only nods as she continues to clean my wound and I stop her by hold her hands.
"My sister doesn't like to get into my drama. She will be chill about it and I hope you get along well with her." She smiles and I let her clean the rest before wrapping me up. She then lays beside me as I wrap my arms around her shoulder and she cuddles to my chest before calling asleep. I stay up a bit more until I soon follow fall asleep.
The next day
I check my wound to see they were fully healed. It turn out that I healed quickly when I slept and I feel relaxed more then yesterday. I finish changing into some formal clothes before leaving my room and heading to the throne room. My sister send me a message that she would be here in a few minutes so I wanted to greet her at the throne room before presenting her to Michael. I get there as the team was there as well and well dressed. Joshua fixed his tie while Jane fixed up Zack since he didn't like wearing any formal suits. "Okay guys, she will be here any minute now. Please understand that she like to mess around and she is someone not to mess with since she helps me with some territories as well." They nod and I sit at the throne which get me nervous. Author walk up to my side as I tap my fingers on stone. "Hey relax, I am just worried that she will cause a bit of problem with Michael."
I looked at him confused as the doors open and my sister walks with her guards and I smile. I decent from the throne and we hug and I get a good look of her. "Sarah you look wonderful as always. I hope you trip here was well." She nods as the look around. "Yes, it well. I am actually surprised that you are protecting and give all these people shelter. i am glad that my help is not going to waste." I chuckle and introduce her to the team while Author give a look towards Sarah which gave me the idea that they know each other. "Oh Marcus, you told me that I would be meeting some special to you. My guess is that it is your mate as you call it." I nod as I lead her out and we make our way upstairs. I stop in front of Michael's door and I towards her. "Please don't give her a hard time. She has been through a ruff time."
She nods and I knock on the door before opening it and see Michael puting on her shoes as she was fully dressed in a suit that she wanted. I looked at her amazed as Sarah walk in and she smiles. "She sure is beautiful, Hello my name is Sarah. it is nice to meet you." Sarah extend her hand out to Michael who takes with cautious. I could tell something in her eyes was surprised and nervous. "Well I know you may be hungry, how about we head to the dinner room and have dinner." Sarah nods and she leaves with both of us behind her. I could see that Michael was holding back something and it was starting to make me nervous.
We arrive at the dinner table and Author looks towards Michael then back to Sarah like if he was trying to understand something with her. We sit down with me at the end of the table, Michael on my right, Sarah on my left, Author beside Michael while the rest of the team taking a seat. They bring out the food and we eat in silence as I see that Sarah keep sending glances at Michael who looks nervous and a bit red on her cheeks. I try to ignore it until I open myself to Michael and immediately I can feel she is nervous, worried and embarrassed. Michael immediately blocks me out and she looks at me with a fustrated look.
I could feel the team giving us glances since we were acting strange. I sigh in fustratation as I stand up and look at both of them. "Can I please tell me if you guys know each other. You guys haven't said anything but instead glance at each other. Do you guys have a history?" Michael look away from me and grab her cup her wine to take a sip while Sarah nods. "Me and Michael are business partner for a while now. I developed her arms for many things and she would sometimes spend a night with me in bed." Michael crushes her glass while the team were shocked from the information. I nod as I push my chair and leave the dinner hall.
Michael p.o.v
The minute that my land on Sarah, I was on high alert since we both have a history together. As soon as Sarah raffled us out, I crushed my glass in my hand as everyone was in shocked. I am trying my best to trust Marco, but now I don't think he would trust me now from this information. He nod, pushes his chair and leaves quick with a anger look. I look towards Sarah who looked shocked as we and looks towards me."Spoke too soon?"
I get up quickly and grab her from her collar while everyone stand up and pulled us apart."What the hell Sarah! Why did you tell him that? You do realize that he has trying to build my trust towards him, but you shattered the trust he had towards me." Author knew I would never hurt Sarah so he told everyone to let us go. I walk up to Sarah and hold her shoulders. "Couldn't you have kept your mouth shut about that? I wasn't expecting for you to raffle me out like that." She look away and doesn't say anything as I let her go and walk out. I hwad upstairs to find Alexis playing with his toys and he noticed that I was angry. "Mother what is wrong?"
I shake my head as I grab a blanket and rip it to pieces so I could make a strap that I would be able to carry Alexis. "Marcus is mad at me for something that I did bad long time ago. I think we should leave before something goes bad. Grab a toy and your jacket so we can leave." He nod and grabs a small car and I help put on his jacket. I strap him to my chest before opening the window and climbing out. Something that I never told anyone was that when Marcus marked me, my wings appeared and it really took my by surprise. I open my wing as they were pure black as I started to rise and soon moved forward leaves the territory.
I fly for hours until I finally reach the area of my home. I was sweating and my muscles ache as I landed roughly on my back. I could hear my door opening and footsteps as my head is lifted from the ground. My ears start to ring as I couldn't hear who was talking to me and I could feel Alexis been removed from my chest so I could breath. I could feel been carried and fresh air hits my skin making me relax. I was layed down on something soft and someone lift my head so my lip could meet some cold water. I wake up gasping and start to drink it fast. "Easy Michael, take it slowly. Your body is very tired right now and you can't use your strength that much." I look to my right to see my father kneeling there with a worried look.
I smile as he puts his arms under me and hugs me to his chest. "I was so scared that I lost you and my grandson." He kisses my forehead and lays me back down. He pushes some strings of hair away until he noice the mark on my shoulder. He goes to touch it, but I stop him and he looks at me worried. "Please... don't ask me about it. I just need to rest and once I feel better then I will tell you everything." He nods and and I close my eyes and I fall into a deep sleep.
Author p.o.v
I walk through the hallways as I reach Marcus's office as he sat there at his desk. I knock the door and walk in as he looks up to me. I could see the pain in his eyes as his past haunted him deeply. This wasn't the first time this has happened when someone he loved cheated on him. His lover from many years ago cheated on him the day before their wedding. Daniel, Sarah and the rest of us were always in edge when he brought Annabelle into the equation. She was always with him 24/7, asking for attention and many gift. At that time Daniel wasn't on the hunt and he was normal like everyone else. Sarah was very young at that time since she was born only a two years old. Marcus was the one who was desperate to find a mate and he never found her no matter where he looked. Everyone told him to be pacient and she will come, but he wanted a family he can create so he decided to choose his mate. We first though it was good that he found someone he loved, but at the years passed on we started to notice some changes in Marcus. He was starting to be more agresesive towards others and he was looking tired like if he wasn't getting any sleep. His father, who was king at the time, start to notice it and talked to him which lead to a huge fight between them. His father send him away to the government base so they can teach Marcus a lesson. Annabelle went with him and we never saw them again. Two years later we get some information that Marcus and Annabelle were getting married.
That is when everything start to shattered for him.