Timeless - Mark Tuan

Chapter 40

"Where are we anyway?" I ask Mark who is still laying naked beside me. We've been in the room for hours now. The sun is already down and we still don't feel like getting up. It's not because I'm still weak. In fact, I feel more energized than I've been for centuries. It's actually because we don't want to get off each other's arms. 

He looks around and sighs. "Not my house, for sure. I was just brought here, too." He says. 

I prop myself up with my elbow and look down at him. "By who?"

"These two guys. Bam and Youngjae, I think." 

"They're with the one who carried me away?" I notice how he grits his teeth and I clear my throat before he can curse. "With the guy who took me?"

"Yes," his eyes go back to normal. "Do you know him?"

I shake my head as I lay my head back down on the pillow. "I'm not sure." The only thing I remember about the guy was his voice. I didn't even get to see his face. I turn to my side to Mark again. "Are they still here?" I completely forgot about the other voices I think I heard before I opened my eyes this morning. 

"They were here last night. And this morning, I think."

The happening at the club felt like it was just last night. But, I'm sure I've been out for more than a week based on how my skin condition is now. It would usually take me two days to recover from a witch's burn, but the damages I've received when I've inflicted the fire on myself might have taken a week ... two at the most. 

I squeeze my eyes close as the memory of that day comes back to me. Of how I even thought of taking my own life. Of the pain of thinking that I've lost Mark. 

But, I didn't lose him and I'm alive. That's what matters ... for now. 

"Where are you going?" Mark asks when I get up from the bed and get to the nearest piece of clothing I find on the floor. 

"Aren't you hungry?" I ask him, finding more of my clothing around the room. 

What did Mark mean earlier about Lady Ealasaid tricking us? Why did the guys earlier help us? Who are they? How did Mark even recover from the powerful impact I gave him? He must've been burned badly, too. But, there are no marks on his body. Not even a scratch.

I don't notice Mark standing in front of me, studying my troubled face as I put on my clothes. "What's wrong?" He asks, startling me. 

"Huh?"

"What's the matter?"

"How'd you meet Lady Ealasaid?" I ask him. 

His eyes get bigger and he backs out, putting his hands up in front of him in defense. 

"Ugh..." I roll my eyes at him then giggle. "I'm not going to throw a fit again, ok?" I say. "You said you were under her spell?"

"Well," he sighs, sitting back on the bed as he puts on his jeans. "That's what the guys said."

Of course he's already talked to them. I get into his thoughts and try to learn what happened when I was out. But, Mark startles me again when he grits his teeth, mumbling whispered curses and giving me a death glare. "Can you stop doing that? How do you even do that?"

"What?" I look at him innocently. "What did I do?"

"That ... " He gets up from the bed and picks up his shirt from one of the chairs beside the window. "You just force yourself into my head like the shield I've put up there is nothing to you."

He was shielding it? "You call that a shield?" I laugh out loud. I purse my lips close when he gives me another threatening glare. "Sorry." I finally say.