Tasting Darkness

Chapter 68

Chapter 68

Darius growled, and the man just stared through the windshield at us for a second before walking off and watching us leave. I shook my head and turned to Darius, who was watching the man in the rear vision mirror. “I need to get you home,” he muttered.

“Gosh, he came out of nowhere,”

“They always do,” Darius muttered, and I peered over at him, wondering what he meant. He never elaborated on his words but kept glancing in all the mirrors as he drove. Finishing my chocolate bar, I pouted, and Darius laughed.

“I got you more in the bag in the boot,” Darius chuckled. We were about 10 minutes from home and had been driving on a backroad for about five minutes already.

“Maybe Lycus was right about that one,” I said before suddenly everything exploded and I was tossed forward in my seat. One minute we were driving the next, we drove into a wall.

The front of the car smashed into a shield. The windows exploded on impact, and I remembered the sound of groaning metal and felt the glass rain shards into my face before everything went black.

roof lining. Blood trickled

Crawling out of the wreck, glass stabbed into my hands. I stumbled over to his side and opened the door. I kept trying to wake him, but he was knocked out and bleeding profusely. I unclipped his seat belt worried about a car slamming into us, and he fell from his seat with a groan. The smell of petrol filled the air, and

nervously, looking around at what we ran into, but I found nothing besides the clearing, forest, and a clear road

came to me. I could run! Yet as I looked at Darius unconscious and thought of the others back home, I dismissed the idea before

when I heard a whooshing noise and lots of them. Blinking, I tried to clear my vision. The shimmer of portals glistened in the distance, blobs of black spilling

trying to wake him. Darius groaned,

up my spine at the sound of them, their black furless huge bodies bounding toward us, all sharp teeth and massive claws leaping our way.

rang from the loudness as I tossed my hands out, slamming them on the ground on either side of us and shut my eyes, waiting for my death when I jolted. The movement rattled my pounding head as the hellhounds collided with the force field that I

huge beasts growled, trying to find a way past it when I pushed the walls higher, creating a crystal clear dome around us. Their massive bodies collided with it. Trying

and cramped at the amount of exertion it took on me. Digging my hands into the earth, vines started wrapping around the dome as it

sensation running down my face told me I wouldn’t hold it much longer when m y

o hold them started running low and faltering when I felt warm hands grip my waist and move under my shirt to my ribs. My

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