Tasting Drakness

Chapter 51

However, Kalen still asked, and I noticed Darius fall onto the bed. Could feel his eyes boring into the back of my skull. “Tell me something, you remember the night of the fire?” I blinked at Kalen wondering how that helps anything.

Yet the look on his face told me he was trying to prove something to Darius. Or maybe me, I wasn’t sure. “I remember coming home sick from school; I think I got food poisoning,” I tell him, and he nods.

I thought back to that day, but it was kind of hazy. My brows creased as I tried to think. My mum was angry, her and my father were arguing, and I threw up on the floor. Why couldn’t I remember after that? I remember my father cleaning the mess up. I also remember my mother giving me a drink, but that was it until the actual fire.

“What else do you remember?” Kalen asked, leaning forward, and I noticed Darius hop off the bed and walk over to us. He drops into the armchair across from us and loads more wood into the fireplace, though I knew he had only come over to listen.

“I remember the smoke woke me, and I remember calling out t o my father. He called back and told me to hold on, that he was trying to get to me,” I answer.

“What else?” Kalen nods.

“Just trying to move, trying to get to the door, but I felt so heavy, and my lungs burned, I think I crawled to the door,” I tell him.

“Anything else?” Kalen asks when the bathroom door opens. Tobias steps out, followed by a billow of steam.

“I remember burning, which must have been my side, then only waking up to see Darius standing in front of me, his hands out. My mother’s screams when the roof fell in, and the forest behind the house caught fire, but that is it,” I avert my eyes when Tobias drops his towel, catching a glimpse of his ass as he slid some gray tracksuit pants on.

Kalen chuckled as my face heated, and Darius raised an eyebrow at him but said nothing, nor did he add anything about that night. He simply sat back and watched Kalen and m

Looking over at Tobias, I stared at the burns on his back, full thickness burns, and the skin patchy in places. “Your burns. Why didn’t you heal them, and why are they so bad?” I ask, and he looks at me over his shoulder before staring at Darius, who nods to him.

“Because it took all our power healing you,” Tobias says simply, and I look at Darius, who had an indecipherable expression on his face.

back would have looked ten times worse than his and your legs. When we got to the house, the roof over

out just before the entire room caved in

asked a little

out; Tobias is burned

why didn’t you

you. What we had left, we used to cloak you.”

after your powers manifested. We cloaked you so well that we

me at all?”

to kill you, what I want to

“And mine,” Tobias adds.

your mate?” I deadpan nobody knew I was; I didn’t even

yourself this: why would

you just to stop me from having you?” Darius

parents didn’t try to kill me, Darius. I remember them trying to get to

easily by opening a portal into your room. Getting you out? We couldn’t open one, so again, Aleera,

My parents loved me, Darius. I heard my father trying to smash through the floor to get to me, then you got there whenever you

my own keeper, hurt my mate?” he asks, nodding toward Tobias. I looked at him, and Tobias was watching me. “Maybe you were only after my parents,

your parents aren’t who you think they are, Aleera,” Darius snarls. Tears burn my eyes at his words. How could he say that? My parents loved me; I know

wrong. My life was fine before you came in and turned it upside down. My

if you’re

I tell him, and

that is what you