Marked By Pain (The Marked #2)(31)

“Mackenzie, tell me to stop and—” he gasps, placing his forehead on my shoulder as I stroke him.

“Don’t you dare fucking stop, Daniels,” I say, making him chuckle as he carries me over to the bed. He undoes his trousers, climbing over me and I pull him closer as I kiss him. He slides into me in one harsh, long, and amazing stroke, making my back arch in pleasure.

“You’re mine now, Mackenzie,” he whispers in an almost growl against my lips, as he keeps thrusting in and out of me. His hand slides down my stomach towards my core, rubbing my clit in perfect circles—driving me insane with the pleasure.

“Daniels,” I moan as he bites down on my neck, and sucking on a spot that I love. I lose control as he makes me come. He quickly follows me, slamming into me so hard that the bed slams against the wall with every thrust, before I feel him finish inside me, and he presses his lips agianst mine as he groans my name.

“This is us now, together. All of us, no more secrets,” he says a little breathless.

“All of us?” I ask, needing him to understand.

“I know you love them, and I like them...okay some of them in smaller doses than others, but I like that they love you. They will protect you when I can’t,” he says, sliding out of me, but keeping his body on top of mine as I trace the pain mark on his ribs.

“You never told me your first name, it feels weird to even ask now,” I say, making him laugh. He goes to answer me just as the door is opened. I quickly grab the blanket, covering myself, when I see Logan walk into the room, holding keys and smoke trailing in after him. His eyes widen as he looks between us, before grinning and leaning against the wall.

“Time to leave, naughty student-teacher time will have to continue later,” he says, making me laugh a little, while Mr Daniels glares at him as he pulls his trousers up.

“One, not a real teacher. Two, what the fuck are you talking about?” he asks, getting off the bed.

“The council is attacking the base, and Kenzie’s father is distracted. It’s time to leave,” he explains and then a loud alarm rings throughout the place.

“What the hell is that?”

“Oh, I blew up the science labs,” Locke answers as he comes into the room and stares at me, and then Mr Daniels for a second before grinning.

“Sexy teacher time?” Locke comments.

“That’s what I said,” Logan says and then high fives Locke.

“Small doses, very small fucking doses,” Mr Daniels mutters, making me laugh as I slide out from the bed and quickly grab my clothes.





Chapter 20





Mackenzie





The alarms are still blaring as we run across the compound, rushing to the outer wall. We figure with all the guards fighting and distracted, it should be easy enough for us to escape over the edge of the wall. Once outside of the building I was locked in, it is utter chaos. I can't tell who is on whose side, with all the unfamiliar faces and everything moving so fast, so I just try to dodge and stay out of the way of all the fighting marked. Finally, I see three familiar faces, Enzo and Kelly are practically carrying Ryan as they make their way towards us. I stop running, the twins and Mr Daniels notice instantly that I've stopped, and come to a halt too.

“Kenzie, this isn't the time to pause and stretch,” Locke shouts.

“We have to wait for the others!” I shout back, pointing at Enzo, Kelly, and Ryan. His eyes lock on them and he jogs towards them, nudging Kelly out of the way to help Enzo and speed them up. Kelly reaches for me as soon as she's close enough, giving me a tight hug.

“Are you okay?” she whispers, and I snort. “Yeah, stupid question,” she mumbles sheepishly as she pulls back. She casts a worried glance at Ryan, before moving forward and tugging my hand to pull me along too, not giving me a chance to check on my brother myself. I caught a glance though, and that was enough to see the blood and bruises covering him. No wonder they're practically carrying him.

We finally reach the edge of the compound, and I'm about to use my air mark to float up, when a firm hand grips my arm.

“What?” I ask, turning to face Enzo, who's left my brother's side to reach me.

“Look closely,” he says, pointing up at the top of the wall. I focus and see the familiar glimmer of a protection shield being held over the edges of the compound.

“We can take it, there's enough of us,” I say, about to call on my air mark to float up to it, but he shakes his head.

“We have no idea how many people are holding that up. It may take us too long to bring it down, maybe we won't be able to even bring it down at all. We need to find another way,” he says. I cast a worried glance at my brother, who seems barely conscious. We need to get out of here now, but how…? It’s chaos, there’s no way we are getting—the tunnels. The answer hits me like a ton of bricks. Ryan's plan for Verity and East's escape. Verity didn't know about us using the tunnels, so I doubt that they figured out our plan to use them either.

“Come on, I know a way out!” I shout at them, as I take off running towards the direction of the entrance to the tunnels. They trail closely behind me, not even questioning how I know a way out.

We reach the building next to the wall that the entrance is meant to be tucked behind. Just as I'm about to lead them around, a fire ball flies right by my head. I turn around finding a group of rebels standing around us and slowly getting closer. The twins put Ryan down, resting him against the building as they get ready to fight.