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.

can’t I feel her,” Kalen mutters, his eyes scanning my face.

is why, but she is

you always lie, then take her from me,” Lycus looks behind me at Darius, and I hear movement before I watch Tobias kneel beside him. Kalen growled before he could even touch

hurt her if you try,” Lycus tells Tobias. His hand fell to

point being?” Darius

would never fucking forgive himself, Darius. Stop being a dick,”

Lycus? He hasn’t had one of these for months. You know it is the only way,” Darius snaps at him. Lycus eyes went to me

him, will you Aleera,” My brows furrow in confusion at

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

I did, Darius may just kill me for what I accidentally did, but the moment Lycus tried to force me to take, his

to take enough that Kalen could feel me beside him, feel my nonexistent

and I chuckled, yet his following words made

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

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

his face. “Well, don’t you burn brighter than the sun, the first time I have seen a rainbow aura.

tried to save him, but he shoved me through a

I tried to portal back,

you do that?” Kalen asked, pulling me from

I asked

everyone’s eyes watching u s when Kalen reached his hand, brushing the air around me, his fingertips touching my aura. I

you?” he

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 needed him to be quiet. It would raise suspicion if he kept talking of my aura or whatever he sensed. He wasn’t of sound mind right now, so I could play i t off by

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