Tempting Darkness By jessicahall Book 2 Chapter 16

Aleera POV I felt like I was stuck in a void, yet I could hear some buzzing noise trying to reach me, voices I was familiar with as the darkness sucked me under. Fragments of memory were coming back to me. The dead look on Darius’s face was like he was looking through me. The power that emanated from him was demonic and as dead as the look in his glazed over eyes.

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Eyes I was sure would haunt me for the rest of my life. Yet as I peered into those endless depths.

I had seen and felt things, things I couldn’t explain, things I wished I could unsee. People in lab coats, the smell of metal, something that shouldn’t have a scent but did. It was potent, and the metallic taste of it on my tongue I could 11 metallic taste of it on my tongue I could still taste even while in this state.

It was like a ghost of a memory that wasn’t mine, all seen in the pools of darkness that swirled within the darkness of untapped power when he touched me, sucking my magic out of me. I felt the coldness of it licking at my bones and sinking deep into my soul. The screams of a child and the smell of burned hair and metal I could still smell.

The blurring vision of people in lab coats, yet I felt blind and delirious. Was this some suppressed memory of mine, or was it Darius’s? Was it a figment of my imagination or a reality he was once trapped in? Yet as the screams and the smells overwhelmed me and tried to trap me inside myself, I felt a tugging sensation. One that was luring me out of the darkness, calling me out of myself, calling me out of the void that was once my power.

cold despite the warm hands touching me and the sparks rushing over my skin. “And she is right to fear it. She is the last harmony fae, but she shouldn’t have been. You two would have been unstoppable if you were still one too,” I hear Kalen’s voice, his words growing clearer, and I hear

will keep you safe,” Darius whispers, and I 000 finally figure out who

same demonic crazed voice from earlier. No, he sounded like his regular self, but what he did to Kalen, what I felt through

I couldn’t explain it. How could he be willing but not at the same time? Gentle fingers

Darius murmurs. “No, you hold her,” “She won’t want me holding her, Kalen. Not after what I did,” Darius says, and I tried to blink, try to move, yet I felt paralyzed, but finally, my body willed my eyes to

stared at the ceiling, and I could see the side of Darius’ face, yet I couldn’t turn my head to look for Kalen. Darius gasps looking down and seeing my eyes open and peering back at him, looking away from me

You will hold her,” Kalen says, his voice sounding firm, which was odd. He was never so demanding, especially with Darius. What was more shocking

that. I wondered how long it would last before he was back to pushing me away because if past behavior was any indicator, he would do just

wasn’t the monster I

seared my bond like it wanted to recoil away from him for what he did to recoil away from him for what he did to Kalen and

conflicted. I too, was conflicted because it sounded like he was asking permission, something he

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