Tasting Drakness

Chapter 34

“Aleera, stay awake for me,” Kalen murmured, his voice becoming more and more distant when I felt my clothes being tugged off. My limbs were floppy and Lycus moved me around like a puppet, yet the feeling induced by the blood loss had me not caring about anything as I focused on breathing. It seemed like a mammoth task. One I wasn’t sure I wanted to keep forcing because it was too much effort.  (This Novel daily new chapters provide it

A sharp prick in my arm told me someone had jammed a needle in me and yet I couldn’t open my heavy eyelids.

“I don’t get it? Why does she need blood? Lycus healed her,” came a voice.

“She has no magic, Kalen. She might as well be human. She will be fine,” Lycus murmured, and their voices grew louder.

“She looks so pale,” Kalen worried. Their voices became more explicit as my surroundings returned to me. I had no idea how long I was out for, but I was aware that I was no longer in the shower. Tingles spread up my arms from the fingertips that brushed up them lazily.

“Left some nasty scars, but she is getting some color back,” Kalen murmured and I groaned.

“She is waking up,” Kalen said. The excitement in his words made my eyes flutter, and I opened them to look at the ceiling. The same ceiling I saw when I fell through the portal. Kalen hovered above me, looking down at me as he leaned over, pulling my eyelids up and making me blink rapidly.

onto my collarbone. My hand went to his hair, wanting to reassure him I was fine when I felt the tug in the crook of my elbow. When he lifted his head, I looked at my arm and the line that was in it, giving

nothing when I looked for the blood bag, only to find the other end of the

He doesn’t answer but

need for blood here either besides Tobias, so we had to make do, probably not the safest way if you were human,” Kalen chuckled, cupping m y face in his

clean and since we all share the same blood

groggily before clutching my

this stuff in that boarding school you went to? I thought mates and fates were common topics in schools. They even taught us about them in the orphanage,” Kalen continued to ramble, and Darius wandered off, so I turned my attention to Kalen, trying to listen to what h e

fates chose, our mates though little iffy if you ask

sorry, you just caught me while out of it,” I

check of sorts,” he chuckled. I rolled my eyes before noticing he was staring at me expectantly. Oh, he was serious. He wanted to know if I indeed understood how the mate bonds

head. “Ah, they are determined by the time of birth, the position of the moon, and the date,”

that is why all of us share the same birthday. You are the exception though, since we are all 29 and you are only 24. So, when we were born we were all born at 1.11 am on the 19th of May. You being our keeper didn’t appear until 5 years later. Although you share the same time of birth and have the same birthday, all mates

born on that day?”

that time was 5 years later, and that was you,” I honestly never looked into our bloodlines or