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.

trickled down my face a s I tried to see

opened the door. I kept trying to wake him, but he was knocked out and

at what we ran into, but I found nothing besides the clearing, forest,

thought came to me. I could run! Yet as I looked at Darius unconscious and thought of the others

lots of them. Blinking, I tried to clear my vision. The shimmer of portals glistened in the distance, blobs of black spilling out. A

they drew closer, trying to wake him. Darius groaned, and they got about 20 feet away. I

bodies bounding toward us, all sharp teeth and massive claws leaping our way. Darius’s magic slammed into me like

away, unable to consume anymore. A scream tore out of me as four of them pounced about to rip us to pieces. My ears 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

find a way past it when I pushed the walls higher, creating a crystal clear dome around us.

it in place; everything ached and cramped at the amount of exertion it took on me. Digging my hands into

trickling sensation running down my face told me I wouldn’t hold it much longer when m y nose started bleeding, my blood dripping onto Darius’s chest where I hovered above

waist and move

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