Tasting Darkness

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.

his eyes scanning my face. His

magic, that is

take her from me,” Lycus looks behind me at Darius, and I hear movement before I

if you try,” Lycus tells Tobias. His hand fell to his side and I figured he was going to try

point being?” Darius

being a dick,”

know it is the only way,” Darius snaps

will you Aleera,” My brows

and I felt his magic rush into me with a significant force when without thinking, I felt myself latch onto it and drain him. It made me almost choke before he let go stumbling backward, his eyes wide. Tobias grabs him, and the atmosphere suddenly ripples with Darius’s rage at what I had done. I remained still, unmoving. Lycus looked at his hand when I felt Darius grab m y arm in his grip, and I knew he was about to take it off me when Kalen made

may just kill me for what I accidentally

enough that Kalen could feel me beside him, feel my nonexistent aura

chuckled, yet his following words made

color in your aura,” I swallowed, wondering what gifts he had that he could see it. I focused on the power running through 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

myself so no one would notice, I forgot how much strain it was from stopping the light from mixing with the dark and morphing it into something else entirely. I couldn’t control my aura for those who could see it, but only one other person I had come across

person died when we were attacked. I didn’t even know his name, but 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, the first time I have

him, but he shoved me through a portal when w

me in. When I

that?” Kalen asked, pulling me

asked him without

but could feel everyone’s eyes watching u s when Kalen reached his hand, brushing the air around me, his fingertips touching my aura. I could feel him through it, I couldn’t see my own, but I could feel him touching it; it was an odd

are you?”

went to say something, but I cut him off. I needed him to be quiet. It would raise suspicion if he kept talking of my aura or

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