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.

mutters, his eyes scanning my face. His words

no magic, that is why, but she

lie, then take her from me,” Lycus looks behind me at Darius, and I hear movement before I watch Tobias kneel beside him.

him. He may hurt her if you try,” Lycus tells Tobias. His hand fell to his side and I

being?”

a dick,” Lycus

You know it is the only way,” Darius snaps at him. Lycus eyes went to me

Aleera,”

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,

me, yet I remained still. Not moving, knowing if I did, Darius may just kill me for what I accidentally did, but the moment Lycus tried to force me to take, his magic bond

. wanted me to take enough that Kalen

Kalen murmured, and I chuckled,

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

from mixing with the dark and morphing it into something else entirely. I couldn’t control my

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

shoved me through

screamed when the portal sucked me in. When I tried to portal back, I couldn’t like he blocked me from

Kalen

I asked him without

Can you make the color come back?” I ignored his question but could feel everyone’s eyes watching u s when Kalen reached his hand, brushing the air around

are you?”

noticed Tobias tilt his head to the side observing me and I swallowed, wondering 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

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