Tasting Drakness

Tasting Darkness By Jessicahall Chapter 24

Chapter 24

My mind flicked to Kalen in this vulnerable state. I could take his power and escape, but I couldn’t do it for some reason. It would be so easy, but I felt like I would condemn him if I did. The floor creaked as I heard three sets of feet step into the room. I could smell the buzz of electricity as a portal opened u p. I glanced over my shoulder to see Darius, Tobias, and Lycus step into the room.

“You were supposed to stay in your room,” Darius told me, and I nodded.

“How did you find him?” he demanded like I was the one that brought him here.

“I don’t know; I just found myself here. I don’t even know where I am, only that I was in some abandoned part of the castle,”

“What, you just stumbled across him?” Darius snapped and Lycus walked around Kalen and kneeled on the other side of him. He grips his shoulder.

“Kalen, can you hear me,” Lycus whispers.

“I won’t let you take her from me again. Why is it bad? I just want to see her,” Kalen mumbled, and Lycus’s eyes went to m e. I could feel them all looking at me.

“I am right here, Kalen,” I tell him.

“But not for long, they always take you away, always take you away,” my brows furrowed in confusion. Lycus pried his hand from mine.

“She is right there, Kalen,” Lycus whispers, kissing his cheek. Kalen just stared through me like he wasn’t really seeing me when Lycus placed Kalen’s hand on the side of my face.

“See, can’t you feel her?”

“She is right in front of you,” Lycus tells him.

can’t I feel her,” Kalen mutters, his eyes

is

at Darius, and I hear movement before I watch Tobias kneel beside him. Kalen

He may hurt her if you try,” Lycus tells Tobias. His hand fell to his side and

being?” Darius

forgive himself, Darius. Stop being a dick,” Lycus snarled, his canines slipping

You know it is the only way,” Darius snaps at him. Lycus eyes went

will you Aleera,” My brows furrow in confusion at Tobias’s

with Darius’s rage at what I had done. I remained still, unmoving. Lycus looked at his hand when I felt Darius

know he could sense Lycus magic running through me, yet I remained still. Not moving, knowing if I did, Darius may just kill me for what I accidentally did, but the moment Lycus tried to force me to take, his magic bond latched on to him like

intention. He would have only . wanted me to take enough that Kalen could feel me beside him, feel

murmured, and I chuckled, yet his following words made me

me, fighting the urge to let the bond change i t, trying my best to ignore it as it tried to seep in deeper and mingle. I felt like I was back in school fighting to

from mixing with the dark and morphing it into something else entirely.

he saved me and sacrificed himself to do i t, but I still remembered the look on his face. “Well, don’t you burn brighter than the sun,

tried to save him, but he shoved me through a portal when w e

in. When I tried to portal back, I couldn’t like he

did you do that?” Kalen asked, pulling me

what?” I asked him without

hand, brushing the air around me, his fingertips touching my aura. I could feel him through it, I

are you?” he

the side observing me and I swallowed, wondering if he could tell I lied but I hoped I had cloaked it enough. Kalen went to say something, but I cut him off. I

should get you back to your room, Kalen,” I

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