Tasting Drakness

Chapter 42

Lycus and Kalen stayed for a while, and whatever Lycus was angry about, even bothered Kalen as he repeatedly asked what was wrong. Lycus only growled before eventually storming out, saying he had to take care of something.

It was now dark, and I wondered how long they would let Kalen stay. What I was most surprised about was the fact Lycus had left me alone with him. That never happened; Kalen was always chaperoned around me, but whatever pissed him off must have made him forget that I wasn’t alone with him.

“I wonder how long until he realizes?” Kalen murmured, and I looked at him.

“Realizes what?”

“That he left me alone with you, Darius will be furious,” Kalen answers, and I nod, hoping I won’t cop the brunt of that fury. With a sigh, I stood up, and Kalen looked at me.

“Where are you going?”

“To shower, and you should go before we both get in trouble,” I told him, and he nodded and stood. “It will get easier,” Kalen says, and I look back at him.

“It’s only because they don’t trust you,” Kalen answers. “And they’re too stubborn to see their own flaws,” he added. (This Novel daily new chapters provide it

“What’s done is done; it changes nothing. He still killed my parents. No matter what he believed or his intentions, it would have ended up this way,” I told Kalen and instantly regretted i t when his face fell.

“Would you have run if you knew me before?” he asked, and m y brows furrowed at his words as I thought them over.

“No, I would have asked you to run with me,” I told him. “But I also know you wouldn’t leave Lycus,” he nodded and went to say something before stopping himself. I walked into the bathroom and stripped my clothes off when he said nothing. M y shirt stunk from sweat, and goosebumps rose on my arms as I waited for the water temperature to go up.

had gone now that I had eaten, and I was feeling a little

my back. A shriek left my lips as I spun, trying to cover myself. Kalen chuckled while I backed away from him, looking

didn’t mean to startle you,” he said while stepping closer. His eyes dropped to my breasts I had covered with

moved closer to the wall. He reached for the soap before washing his face, and my eyes trailed down his bronze-colored skin. He was muscular but not as bulky as the others. My face heated when I followed his

was stupid, yet I snorted, and he rubbed a hand down his face before looking at me. “Something funny?”

if it is a good thing you are laughing or if I should feel insulted,” he sniggers. I tried to stop, yet they were so strange-looking and veiny. Like I wasn’t a total idiot. I had seen sex scenes on TV before,

off abruptly. Oh my God, how embarrassing. Here I am giggling like some schoolgirl because I was 24 and had never

widen before he suddenly covers himself with his hand. “Well, this got awkward fast,” he said,

you really never seen a dick before?” he

separate bathrooms,” I told him.

24,”

my blush all the way from my head to my toes. I was never embarrassed about my virginity, but how he said it made me feel inexperienced and naive. Well, technically, that would make me inexperienced,

you not stare?” My voice is barely

just in shock. The others are convinced you ran off

you I didn’t,” he nods, and I realize none of them believed me, even after Tobias confirmed I wasn’t lying as if I could somehow get away with it. He went to say something when the door suddenly burst open, and a frantic Lycus and Darius walked in. I shrieked, ripping Kalen toward me, using him as a shield in front of me. Could this get any more embarrassing? I heard their collective

anything for a few seconds. And I was too embarrassed to

room,”

was in the shower,”

that,” Darius

showering, nothing else going on Lycus, no need to be jealous,” Kalen snapped at him, which only made him growl louder before he stormed

on, out. You