Tasting Darkness

Chapter 95

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.

growing clearer, and I hear someone sigh. His words

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

voice from earlier. No, he sounded like his regular

was accepting. I remember that much, almost willing and resigned to his fate, I couldn’t explain it. How could he be willing but not at the same time? Gentle fingers stroked my face, brushing my hair back, and I realized we were in the shower,

her. She is waking. You should take her before she wakes,” 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,

Darius gasps looking down and seeing my eyes open and peering back at him, looking away from me when I catch myself staring at him. “She is fine. Her bond is fully

“No. 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 was watching Darius give in to his demands as Kalen stepped out of the shower where I could no longer see him. Darius turns slightly, watching him get out before turning his face

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 that. However, for

describe his out -of-character behavior. Yet I knew he wasn’t the monster I

to my face. His thumb brushed over my lips. His touch burned and seared my bond like it wanted to recoil away from him for what he did to recoil away

I am to give it back,” he murmurs though, by the look on his face, he appeared to be conflicted. I too, was conflicted because it sounded like he was asking permission, something he never does, yet I was powerless and

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