Chapter 226: "Come here."

“Come here.”

Hunter’s voice is hard and insistent and the words are a full-on command, not a request.

I direct my eyes to the man still shrouded in the darkness of the hallway, but one look at him has something in my head screaming.

I avert my eyes, blinking to get the burning sensation away, and instead, I watch the look on Hunter’s face turn from one of bored resentment to livid annoyance.

He repeats his order, his tone firmer, his jaw tighter, his eyes blazing with power as the command goes through the air, “I said, COME HERE.”

A grunt of pain rings out, and the sound of someone struggling to breathe floats into my ears.

I keep my eyes on the floor, holding my breath and listening instead as the footsteps get closer and closer to us, and only when he stops do I look up.

The mark warms on my back and the energy I felt earlier seems to become lesser as I look at him now.

The moon’s light bathes a hooded figure in soft ambiance.

The cloak he wears is a deep purple, the color of Hunte