Chapter 2204

Bella caught Jace off guard. In an instant, she had already torn open his collar, exposing his defined shoulder. She was searching for a birthmark the size of a coin on his left shoulder. Hugh had a birthmark there; it was a faint pink mark that she remembered vividly. The hope Bella had allowed herself to feel was quickly extinguished. Instead of a birthmark, she was met with a long and vicious scar, two fingers wide, that snaked down his left shoulder. The scar stood out starkly against his fair skin. It was gruesome. As a former doctor for Doctors Without Borders, Bella had seen her fair share of injuries on the battlefield. Yet the severity of this scar sent a shiver down her spine. This was not an ordinary knife wound. It looked like the aftermath of an explosion, a wound so severe it was as if he had been torn apart and stitched back together, skin and muscle pieced back like a grotesque puzzle. Could it be possible that... “Ugh—!” Suddenly, she found herself pinned dow