The Lycan Prince’s Wolfless Slave (Academy Romance) novel Chapter 328

Chapter 328

“Well… based on our medical history and the magical reading,” the doctor says slowly, looking up to meet my eyes. “We believe the only thing potent enough to help her right now is for her to be marked. As soon as possible. I assume you are indeed her fated mate, which is exactly why I called you into this room privately.”

The room seems to spin around me as I process his words. I stand frozen, shocked to my very core. He is asking me to mark her… right

now, while she is unconscious? Without her consent?

“I know exactly what you are thinking, Prince Kai,” the doctor says urgently as he steps closer. “But we have absolutely no choice. Only a mate mark carries a spiritual bond potent enough to reach into her subconscious and violently drag her back from where she is stuck in her mind. Once the mark connects your souls, her internal fire will reignite, and she will stop being cold. You have to do it as soon as possible, Your Highness. Every single second she spends trapped in that frozen state brings her closer to permanent brain death.”

Fuck.

“I will leave you alone to get some minutes to prepare yourself,” the doctor says softly, walking toward the exit. “I will be back later, and I hope you would have done the needful by then.”

The door clicks shut, leaving me completely alone with her.

I take a slow step forward and drag a chair right next to Lyra’s bedside. I sit down, my hands trembling as I reach out and slowly stroke her silver hair. It feels like threads of ice beneath my palm.

Fuck. I have absolutely no choice. If I don’t bite her and give her the mate mark, she dies. I need to save her life.

Vlad lets out a low, approving growl in the back of my mind. “Do it, Kai. We have to save our mate. Bite her now.”

As I begin to lean down over her exposed, icy neck, my fangs beginning to slide out, a sudden memory flashes in my mind.

I remember the months back when I used to treat her like a worthless slave. I remember the look of absolute despair on her face when she would cry about never having a single choice in her life. I remember her screaming at me about how everything was always forced on her-her pain, her labor, her punishment.

If I do this to her right now while she is completely helpless, she will wake up and realize I forced the ultimate mate bond on her without her permission. She will look at me and see the exact same monster from her past. She will never forgive me. I will lose her heart forever.

The weight of the realization crushes me. I bend my head down, grabbing her cold, frozen hand, and press it against my forehead. A choked sob escapes my throat, hot tears spilling over my hands as I sit there, feeling completely and utterly helpless. I am trapped between saving her body and destroying her soul.

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I need to figure out what to do. I can’t just force this on her just like that.

My body must have been completely exhausted from the lack of sleep and the emotional stress of the past 24 hours. My eyelids grow

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heavy, the constant throbbing in my head slowing down as my forehead rests against her icy hand. Within a few minutes, my consciousness slips away, and I doze off into a right beside her bed.

A sudden movement nearby makes me open my eyes.

I blink rapidly, the bright lights of the room temporarily blinding me as I realize I slept off. My heart instantly drops into my stomach.

Fuck! How could I sleep right now when I should be marking her?!

That is when I hear a rustling sound right beside Lyra’s pillow.

snap my head up, and my lungs freeze. My entire body freezes. This can’t be happening.

Roman is standing right over her bed. His eyes are wide and burning with a wild intensity. Then he looks down at me with a triumphant smile on his face as he deliberately leans his head down toward the skin of Lyra’s exposed neck.

ROMAN!!! NOOO!!” I scream, my voice cracking as I violently throw my body forward to stop him.

But I am too late.

Before my hands can touch his shoulders to push him away, Roman violently plunges his teeth straight into her neck. A crunching sound echoes loudly in the quiet room as his teeth tear through her flesh, anchoring his beast to her soul.

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He marked her. Roman marked my mate.

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