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. His

has no magic, that is why,

always lie, then take her from me,” Lycus looks behind me at Darius, and I hear movement

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

point being?”

Darius. Stop being a dick,” Lycus snarled, his

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 fleetingly,

will you Aleera,” My brows furrow in confusion at Tobias’s

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 a strangled noise. My eyes darted to his as h e blinked at me like it

Darius may just kill me for what I accidentally did, but the moment

know that wasn’t lycus intention. He would have only . wanted me to take enough that Kalen could feel me beside him, feel my nonexistent aura that

glowing,” Kalen murmured, and I chuckled, yet his following words

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

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 had the gift to see

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

tried to save him, but he shoved me through a

in. When I

do that?” Kalen asked, pulling me from the

what?” I asked

hand, brushing the air around me, his fingertips touching my aura. I could feel him through it, I couldn’t see my

are you?”

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

you back to your room, Kalen,”

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