Ch 135: Sacred Mark

Not too shortly after arriving back at the mansion. Kai and his friends went straight to Jack's bedroom.

Opening the door without knocking. Instantly, Kai, Ace, Glenn, Ivan, and Rome smelled that he and Sharlene had mated. Even with his balcony doors open and the massive amount of cologne he sprayed in the air. Didn't cover that mating stench. At the same time, they heard Jack vomiting in the bathroom.

"You good, Jack?" Ace asked, peeking in to see him just flushing the toilet.

Jack turned on his sink and started splashing water on his face. Then he dried his face before wiping up the extra drips running down his naked chest.

"Yeah, I'm good," Jack said before he started to brush his teeth to get this nasty flavor out of his mouth. Afterward, he walked out only in his black shorts to find them standing around.

Kai saw he looked pale but overall he was handling the drug fairly well. He opened a sealed q-tip stick and handed it to Jack. "Swab your mouth real good," Kai instructed.

Jack took the q-tip and cycled it around the sides of his cheeks. Then he pulled it out and they all watched for a few seconds. Surely there the results came upon hitting the air. The q-tip turned this purplish blue color.

Kai shook his head in disbelief, "I can't believe you were drugged with a lust spell."

"Tell me about it," Jack said frustrated as he put the q-tip back in the wrapping and then handed it to Kai. "Save that for the Vampire Covenant because it's illegal to use such a drug."

"You can't remember anything that happened?" Ivan asked him as Kai took the sample.

Jack shook his head, "it's all a blank."

"I can't fathom someone did this and got around you," Rome stated not believing it himself.

"Somebody has a stronger gift to block out my gift from sensing danger," Jack said, stressing. "I feel horrible for not protecting Sharlene."

"It's more my fault," Kai took full blame. "As your alpha, this is on me for not protecting you or Sharlene. I never should have allowed you to leave the bar."

"It's nobody's fault, Kai," Glenn interjected. "You always let us do what we wish. Even the vampiresses aren't controlled with where they go or what they do."

Kai acknowledged this and he realized he wasn't like this with Victoria.

Jack shook his head in the middle of Kai reflecting on his stringent ways with his mate. "I don't even remember being at any bar or how I got back to the mansion. I just woke up naked with Sharlene in my bed."

Kai nodded and said, handing the sample to Ivan. "I'll be back. I need to swab Sharlene."

Once he walked outside the door. He zapped fastly and landed at Sharlene's door. He knocked a few times before one of the vampiresses opened it for him.

Upon seeing Sharlene deathly ill in bed. Kai thought back to his mother's statement about Sharlene's vulnerability. Unlike Jack, Sharlene was in bed with cold chills and hot sweats. A puke bucket was nearby her on the floor.

Mia, Rose, Zoey, Veronica, Sharlene's sister, mother, and other vampiress were all in the room. Kai went to her bedside as her mother moved aside.

"I need to swab your mouth," Kai gently said as he opened the q-tip. Sharlene opened her mouth and he took the sample. Within seconds, it showed the same positive results as Jack.

For a second Kai sat at her bedside and softly spoke as he adjusted the cool rag on her forehead. "Jack didn't do this on purpose. You weren't drunk on a vampiric drink, you were both drugged by a lust spell."

"Jack can detect threats," Sharlene weakly argued before she wept. "I can't have a vamp baby! We don't love each other!"

Kai felt terrible for her and he gently said. "Jack will help you through this. We all will. Your baby won't be an outcast or rejected."

For once, in a long while since Kai woke up, the vampiresses finally saw Kai's true self coming out from all the self-pity and grumpy control freak he's been lately. Warmly, Rose smiled on the bed to see he was coming around to his old self again.

"I want nothing to do with Jack," Sharlene weakly mumbled in tears. "He marked me!"

Everyone including Kai felt more broken for Sharlene right now. Kai knew marking was a stronghold between destined mates and lovers. Sharlene was forever connected to Jack. If he were to even kiss or mate with any woman or vampiress affect her deeply. Pain would in fact shatter her heart and destroy her mind to the brink of insanity. There was no rejection to stop it. It was a permanent intertwined connection between spouses that they called the sacred mark.

Gently, Kai removed some of her ginger color hair away from her nape. And little to behold, he found the swollen and bruised bite mark on her flesh. As Kai thought back for a second and didn't recall seeing a mark on Jack's body. In return, this meant it was a half mark. Sharlene was connected fully to Jack like one whole, but he wasn't connected to her. She could be with another male and it wouldn't hurt him.

"Please don't tell, Jack. I don't want him to give up his right to be with another female," Sharlene lastly whispered when her eyelids fell into a heavy sleep.

That was a tough one for him and everyone else in the room to swallow. They knew Sharlene and Jack had to be together. Otherwise, it will kill Sharlene if Jack were to be with another woman or vampiress. Out of anybody, Kai understood that pain because Victoria didn't love him but luckily he hasn't marked Victoria. Nor could she mark him until she turned. Otherwise, the pain would be more unbearable to heed compared to how it is already.

Kai fixed the blanket and then stood up to leave. "You have to tell, Jack." Kai stopped at the door to hear Sharlene's mother, who was also his mother's best friend.

"Give her a chance to tell him first," Kai suggested before he walked out. Within seconds, he zipped back to Jack's room. Now he was fully dressed and ready to roll.

"How is Sharlene?" Jack asked with regret written on his face.

Kai's heart ached for them both and he wanted to tell him about the mark. But he knew Sharlene needed to come forth.

"She's resting," was all Kai could say, camouflaging his emotions from his friend.

"We should retrace our steps so I can find the one who did this," Jack darkly declared. "Once I do, that vampire is going to pay."

"What about your son?" Ace asked.

"He's waking up but I sense he needs more time," Jack replied.

"Let's go investigate," Rome stated but before they could leave. Kai's phone rang.

"Yeah?" He answered. "I'm on my way." Kai hung up the phone and said to his friends. "Rex went after Victoria and she needs me."

Jack agreed, "let's make sure she's ok before we investigate."