All Chapters of MARKED BY MY STEPBROTHER : Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

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Chapter Fifty One

Sophie’s POVThe heavy metal door to the escape tunnel made a lot of noise and that was because of the pressure that was coming at it from the other side. I could hear the Devourer’s forces ramming against it from the other side. They were scraping with their claws, and they were writhing, with that terrible ancient voice echoing through the metal. The problem here was that we were all exhausted and they didn't even look like they had started with us at all. It was like we were wasting our time trying to fight them off and protect what was coming. Maybe we couldn't even beat these guys and all that we could do was to just delay the inevitable, was that the case?“Keep moving!” Damon shouted, his voice was raw already. He had his shoulder against the door, muscles straining as he tried to buy us more time. Blood ran down his arms from fresh wounds, but he refused to let go.I held Lucas tight and ran deeper into the tunnel. At this point, my golden energy was still around us, but it w

Chapter Fifty Two

Sophie’s POV The darkness swallowed me completely. For a moment, there was nothing, no sound, no feeling, just cold emptiness pressing against my mind. And this was what terrified me the most. Then Lucas’s heartbeat drummed against my chest, faint but steady, pulling me back. I gasped awake on the cavern floor. I was lying on rocks that were rocks digging into my back, and whatever golden-red sparks were left flickered weakly around us. “Damon!” I cried, my voice had gone as hoarse as anything. He lay a few feet away, unconscious, right in his own pool of blood. The Devourer’s shadow form was still above us, its many eyes reflecting it's obvious triumph. The protective runes on the cavern walls were broken completely. I crawled to Damon, shaking him desperately. “Wake up. Please wake up.” His eyelids fluttered. Silver eyes met mine, filled with pain. “Sophie.. Lucas..” “He’s okay,” I whispered, helping him sit up. “But we can't stay here. We can't be here. We have to move,

Chapter Fifty Three

Sophie’s POV The tunnels went on forever, cold and narrow, the only light coming from the emergency bulbs and the faint golden glow still stuck to Lucas’s skin. I walked in silence beside Damon, feeling the pain in my body with ever step. The temporary severing of the family bond felt like a piece of me had been cut away. I couldn’t feel Damon’s emotions anymore. I couldn’t sense Lucas’s little sparks of power the way I used to. It felt wrong and mpty. Lucas fussed quietly in my arms, his small hands holding my shirt. He kept looking up at me with those silver eyes, as if asking why everything felt different. “I know, baby,” I whispered, kissing the top of his head. “Mommy feels it too. But we’re going to fix this. I promise.” Damon walked on my other side, supporting me when my legs shook so much that he noticed. His face was grim, but I could see the weariness in the lines around his eyes and the way his shoulders slumped slightly. Blood still leaked through the makeshift ban

Chapter Fifty Four

Sophie’s POVThe more deeper we moved into the tunnels the more colder and darker than anything I had ever known. Our footsteps were the only noise here and they sounded against the damp stone walls as we fled further underground. Those noises of those things after us seemed to die down slowly, but it never did disappear completely. “Keep moving,” Damon said from beside me. He supported my weight with one arm while looking from left to right. Blood still seeped through the bandages on his side, but he refused to slow down. “The old mining chamber is just ahead. Elowen says it has natural wards that might buy us time.”I nodded, my legs burning with every step. “Lucas is so quiet. He hasn’t made a sound since we entered the tunnels. What if the corruption is affecting him too?”Damon’s eyes flicked to our son. “He’s strong. Like his mother. We’ll fix the bond. We have to.”Elowen led the way with a small group of her hybrids, their violet energy casting faint light along the walls. Ma

Chapter Fifty Five

Sophie’s POVThe tendril wrapped around Lucas like a chain covered with darkness, and it pulled him from my arms even before I could react. My son’s terrified cry tore through me like a blade.“Lucas!” I screamed, pushing myself forward with every bit of strength that I had left. Golden energy exploded from my hands, burning at the shadow tendril, but it only tightened its grip. The Devourer’s form, cracked and fractured from our combined attack. Regardless, it laughed as if we weren't even doing our best. Because me, Damon shifted as he jumped, into his big black wolf. He rammed into the tendril trying to tear at it. “Let him go!” he said through the bond, the newly restored connection was totally filled with his rage and terror.And it wasn't even something that I could ever match. The bond was back, and it was raw, bright, and stronger than before. This particular feeling? It gave me strength and I poured everything into the golden-red blast, joining my power with his. The tendri

Chapter Fifty Six

Sophie’s POVThe deepest part of the mine felt like both a sanctuary and prison. The walls glowed faintly with ancient runes that Elowen and her hybrids had reinforced overnight, but I could still feel the Devourer’s presence pressing against our defenses, cold, patient, and endlessly hungry. Lucas slept in my arms, his small body occasionally sparking with golden-red energy as if even in dreams he was fighting.I hadn’t slept for more than an hour. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw the Devourer’s many eyes staring at my son.Damon sat beside me, his back was against the rough stone wall, one arm wrapped around my shoulders. His eyes were open, and they watched the entrance where Marcus stood guard. Fresh bandages covered the worst of his wounds, but I could tell that he was still in pain anyway. And the bond was responsible for that. “You should rest,” I whispered, leaning my head against him. “You’ve barely closed your eyes since the last attack.”“Hmm, but I can’t. Not when I c

Chapter Fifty Seven

Sophie’s POVThe cavern was shaking as the Devourer’s forces poured in from almost everywhere. It would probably come down on us if it kept at it but I wasn't sure if The Devourer would let that happen. What it wanted was my son, and I was pretty sure that it didn't want Lucas dead before it had the opportunity to use him for whatever it was that it had planned. “Stay behind me as much as you can,” Damon said urgently, then shifted partially. “If it gets bad, take Lucas and run deeper into the mines.”“I’m not running,” I replied, because it was hardly ever an option for me. Leaving either my son or Damon was something that really didn't gel well with me. “Not without you. We promised each other.”We were all afraid. Damon, me and even Lucas. Everyone was afraid at this thing called The Devourer. Marcus was, and I could tell that Elowen was terrified. Anyway, they didn't need to be. Not like they were its targets. But their fear was for the unknown. What would happen afterwards? Wo

Chapter Fifty Eight

Sophie’s POVThe Devourer’s shadowy hand descended like judgment itself. Time seemed to slow. I held Lucas tightly against my chest with one arm and reached for Damon with the other. Our bond was still there, but it was about to be no more. I found my voice and said, “Don’t let go, Damon!”He grabbed my hand, and his grip iron-clad even with the blood on his fingers. “I'm not letting go,” he said. Lucas cried out, his small body glowing with intense red-gold light. The three of us, connected through the restored bond, became something greater than what the three of us could even think of making. Power flowed through me, through Damon, and through our son. It felt like the moon itself had come down to stand with us.The Devourer’s hand fell right atop our combined shield and the impact made the entire cavern to shake. Rocks fell from the ceiling. The force drove us to our knees, but we held. The shield hadn't broken yet.“Not today,” I whispered to myself. “You don’t get my son.”Dam

Chapter Fifty nine

Sophie’s POVAfter the Devourer was gone, the cavern fell into a heavy silence. I sat on the cold stone floor, Lucas against my chest, his small body finally still after hours of crying. The bond between the three of us was steady now, warm and reassuring, but I could still feel the effects of the corruption trying to disturb my mind. My shoulder still hurt me where the shadow had grazed me, so breathing without feeling pain was impossible at this point. Damon knelt beside us, his large hand gently stroking Lucas’s back. Blood was on his face and arms, making you think the sort of shit he'd been through. “You did it,” he whispered. “Both of you. You held the line when I couldn’t.”“No, we held it. But he’s just a baby, Damon. What bothers me right now is how much more can he take? How much more can we take?”“As much as we have to. But we’re not doing this alone anymore. The pack is with us as well as The Veil. We have time now.”

Chapter Sixty

Sophie’s POV Six Months Later The morning sun came in through the tall windows of the newly rebuilt Alpha suite, spilling warm light across the wooden floors. I stood on the balcony, holding a cup of tea in my hands as it went cold and watching Lucas wobble across the garden below on unsteady legs. At seven months old, he was already walking, far too early, the healers said. But I didn't think anything about him surprised me anymore. “Mommy, look!” he called in his small, clear voice, pointing at a butterfly that had landed on his hand. A tiny spark of golden-red energy flew between his fingers, making the butterfly glow for a second before it flew away. My heart swelled with a mixture of joy and quiet fear. He was growing so fast. Or as the others would say, too fast. Damon stepped up behind me, and wrapped his strong arms around my waist, and rested his chin on my shoulder. His warmth was always what got to me. The moment he was so close to me, I seemed to forget all abou

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