Tasting Drakness

Chapter 20

“Aleera!” He called, and my blood ran cold. I raced down the steps, quickly disappearing amongst the other demons.

Getting to the bottom of the steps, someone shoved me, and I hit the ground. I looked to see who it was, but too many men t o pinpoint which one, and I cried out when another stomped o n my fingers.

“There she is,” I heard Zac’s voice just before a fireball rushed toward me. I shrieked, just managing to move, and it evaporated as it hit the ground where I was.

“Let’s see how pretty she is without all that hair,” Zac’s voice says, making me look up the steps. Zac smiled, and his eyes glistened evilly as he played with another fireball bouncing it i n his hand. I took off running down the corridor. I didn’t stop running until I ended up in a hall on my own. I had no idea if h e was still intending to burn my hair off when I stopped to try and catch my breath.

“I think she went this way,” I heard Deacon’s voice. I cursed and started trying doors, finding most of them to be rooms set up with bunks, and I figured it wouldn’t be a good idea to hide i n one of their rooms. I could hear the screech of their shoes as they ran toward me before I burst through another door and quickly shut it.

Looking around, I find it is a classroom. I could hear them opening and closing doors in the corridor and looked around for somewhere to hide before spotting a jar of pens and noticing some scissors. I grab them before darting underneath the desk.

If I get out of this, the hair is going. I was chopping it off. My heart stopped when I heard the door open. I clutched the scissors in my hand as I heard footsteps walk toward the desk. The chair is dragged out, and my eyes meet with Tobias’s. He went to no doubt curse me out when Zac’s voice reached my ears, and I jumped, bumping my head on the top of the desk.

Tobias growled and sat down just as the door burst open. I froze; I even held my breath.

“What?” Tobias snapped, pushing his chair in and caging me i n with his legs.

“Shit, sorry, Sir,” I hear the door creak like Zac was about to leave before it stopped.

“Have you seen the traitor bitch?” My heart skipped a beat at Zac’s words.

“No, now get out of my fucking classroom.”

“Sorry, sir,” Zac says before I hear the door shut. I let out a breath, but Tobias doesn’t move. Glancing at the scissors, I quickly pocket them before tapping his leg. Still, he doesn’t move.

“Tobias?”

“You never answered me this morning,” he says, pushing the chair out a little to look at me but not enough for me to get out.

I lied, so I didn’t think

can I

“You missed my class,”

“I couldn’t find it,”

won’t be happy when he finds out,” he pushes his chair back further,

went to Darius last night and his cruelty playing with the bond. All

“Unless what?”

tell him, but I want

Tobias stands towering over me. His eyes flicker and turn blood red, and he pins me against the desk by placing his hands on either side of me, and I lean away from

out. “What i f I want something else, like your blood?”

he nods, sniffing me before grabbing me and burying his face

he growls, I felt his tongue run over the pulse in my neck, and I tried to shove him off and failed miserably when he let me go; he grabs my wrist, bringing it

like Lycus,” he whispered. I felt his magic rush over me as he paralyzed

petrified of him feeding on me. Would it

Aleera. I tell Darius, or you let me feed on you, I promise to be gentle,” he said, running his teeth against the inside of my wrist. My eyes widened before thinking of what Darius would do if he found out, but what was stopping Tobias from still telling him. But then again, what was preventing him from feeding on me if he really wanted to

will be back soon; your next class is with him, so pick, or you will be

won’t

could hear it, but I found myself nodding anyway, more frightened of what Darius would do if he found out. Apparently, my nodding must have been enough consent because I hissed in the next second as his fangs sank into my wrist, breaking my delicate skin. Initially, it hurt before my wrist and hand tingled; warmth spread through me, making m e realize he was using his magic so

when the siren sounded, signaling next class. I glance at the clock behind him to find it wasn’t

as he pricked his thumb with one of his fangs before running it over the two puncture marks on my wrist. They closed instantly, and he brought my wrist to his mouth. I thought he was going to bite me again when he ran his tongue over it, licking up the blood that spilled down my

taste sweeter than Lycus,

a bad

isn’t, but for you, it may be,”

a step back when his eyes glow redder, and he laughs before flicking his wrist, and a portal

He says, shoving

gasp, feeling his magic swallow me along with the portal before I find myself spat outside on the fields. I landed on my hands and knees. I look around the

found out your next class was with me,” H e laughed as he stopped in front of me. The men moved out onto the field, and I was thankful it was all grass. However, that was short-lived when