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.

that is why,

I

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

being?”

fucking forgive himself, Darius. Stop being a dick,”

these for months. You know it is the only way,” Darius snaps at him. Lycus eyes went

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

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

yet I remained still. Not moving, knowing if I did, Darius may just kill me for what I accidentally did, but the moment

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

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

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 was back in school fighting

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

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 seen

to save him, but he shoved me through a portal when w e couldn’t run

me in. When I tried to

did you do that?” Kalen asked, pulling me from the

what?” I asked

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 me, his fingertips touching

you?”

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

you back to your room, Kalen,” I told

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