Tasting Darkness

Book 2 Chapter 13 Trigger Warning !!! Rape Content . Kalen POV The portal closed , and I sighed in relief when I found Aleera was no longer behind me . Tobias groans on the floor behind me as Darius watches me with a predatory glint in his eyes . I moved around the desk , trying to keep my distance from him . If he grabbed me before I could touch his aura , I was fucked . This side of Darius only recognized power Darius was starving for it and would kill for it if I couldn’t change his aura to recognize me . This was not Darius , and I had not seen him like this in years .

He always made sure to keep this side of him contained . Nothing was more dangerous than the Demonic King . Just like when he killed his father , his father was power – hungry , just like him . Once his mate died , his father would take power however he could . But Demonic Fae could kill and absorb power , yet that required someone to die . He reminded me of his father when he was like this , a cruel monster . Just like Tobias was a monster when frenzied , so was Darius , without power . It was why Darius killed his father . His father wanted us to claim Aleera , so she could power share .

I knew he wanted to use her so he could retain power also and we got into an argument over it . Aldric lost it ; he hadn’t had power in weeks , after Darius learned how he was maintaining power and confronted him . So when I got into an argument with him over Aleera , Lycus jumped in to stop Darius’s father from raping me . Aldric knew how we maintained power , and figured if we wouldn’t share Aleera with him , then we were fair game . Lycus was nearly dead by the time Tobias and Darius got here . I had no memory of it after being knocked out when I called on them . Lycus refused to tell me what happened , and so did the others . All I knew was that I woke up to Aldric dead , and Darius had absorbed his father’s energy and soul .

So seeing Darius like this petrified me . We were all worried about this , but figured he would have enough sense to come to one of us and not let it get this far . Darius’s aura was so black it was like looking into oblivion . It stung as felt for his bond , temporarily blinding me as I looked through the aura that resonated around him consuming me as I sought out his bond . Darius lunged over the table at me . His sharp – pointed nails reached for my neck when he was tossed sideways . Darius smashed into the wall on his side as a red light blasted past me . I glanced at Tobias to see him sitting up .

His hand was outstretched , blood running down the side of his head from his temple a drenching his shirt . Darius groaned , and his skin turned scaled as he growled before rushing at me . I see Tobias’s hand flick toward him , but I step in his way , making him drop his magic and I grip Darius ‘ head in my hands as his sharp needlepoint nails dig into my shoulder . I stun Darius , numb and mute his aura and him . ” Leave us , ” I yell at Tobias . ” Like fuck I will when he is like that ! ” Tobias says , spitting blood on the floor . Darius , who was stunned under my magic , stared at me as the tendrils of darkness seeped into me , telling me to give in to the darkness and to follow it . Focusing , I manipulated his aura , trying to take some of the darkness out of it , but it was so cold , making me breathe smoke clouds in the air . ” Kalen ? ” Tobias says , coming up behind me .

Darius ‘ grip tightens , his nails breaking my skin through my shirt . ” Twist it . ” Tobias growls behind me . ” What ? ” ” Change the direction of it . Stop trying to take it , I will do it . ” Tobias says . 11 ” Tobias , he will hurt you , ” ” I don’t care . I won’t have him hurt you . Not like last time , 11 ” I was fine , ” I retorted . Although he had a point . I couldn’t

Darius stuck behind his basal instinct . ” But he does , doesn’t he , ” Tobias says . ” Tobias , get out ! ” I tell him . ” Kalen ! No ! ” Tobias snarls at me . ” Get out or fucking watch ! I’ll power him , but I am not letting him hurt you , ” I tell Tobias . I was useless at everything else . One thing I could contribute to our bonds was helping them stay in control or dealing with Darius when he was like this . But I knew I had to change his anger to something else , and warm and fuzzy wasn’t Darius . The

at my mate .. Tobias was more potent than me , but that would make Darius rougher with him . I know Darius fights it

power into lust . The moment I moved my hands , I was going to be like a puppet in his strings , because I couldn’t fight him and maintain concentration at the same time to hold it over him . Every time this has happened , I have usually been on my own or with Lycus , and I always block Lycus out . Yet with Aleera , I wasn’t sure I could block her fully now she had marked me . My hands trembled as I let him go , knowing what I was in for , and my eyes glazed over as I tried to maintain the same level of control , contorting and twisting his aura . Still

could twist your worst nightmare , demolish it and rebuild it into something worse . Take on the persona of the person you feared most . Blinded suddenly to my surroundings , I heard him growl before the air was knocked out of my lungs . The room fizzles into view momentarily as I

sure I forced them out , yet Tobias wasn’t leaving Darius ‘ hands fall on my hips before he flips me , making me lose my magic as he slams me on my stomach on the desk , flinging me around like a rag doll . Reaching out , I opened a portal , wanting Tobias to step through it . Yet all he did was shake his head , and refused

when I felt him suction on to my magic and draw on it . Once it was gone , I would have not a sliver of control left over him until he was done with me and came back to us . It sickened me knowing this could have been Aleera if she didn’t get out in time . Tobias growls and I feel my magic fading away with each brutal thrust . Darius groans behind me