CHAPTER 308 WHITE AND BLACK

Marcus lay on the small couch, the pain in his arm throbbing in sync with his heartbeat. His body felt battered and exhausted, begging him for a modicum of rest, but his mind refused to stay quiet even when the tent and the forest surrounding it were eerily silent. The events of the night replayed in his mind as if it were on a stereo loop, how Darius and Yovan’s betrayal almost got him killed, all thanks to the Archon’s warning that came in time for him to survive the hunters chasing him through the forest. Bourne had left him to sleep and gone back home to get food to eat, but he couldn’t bring himself to see that the one he had first suspected of betraying him was the one who would later save him. Marcus couldn’t make sense of it all, and amidst the storm of thoughts, one image lingered most vividly in his mind: the Archon’s eyes, glowing with a spectral array of colors, like a rainbow caught in twilight. She had the body of a woman but unlike any woman with those hypnotizing e