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.

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 someone sigh. His words confused me, and I wondered which of our mates he was speaking to. The bond felt numb, felt like it was stunned, and my eyes were too heavy to force open. I wanted to know who Kalen was speaking to and what

that to you. I will keep you safe,” Darius

skin tingle and burn, yet his voice didn’t sound like the same demonic crazed voice from earlier. No, he sounded like his regular self, but what he did to

time? Gentle fingers stroked my face, brushing my hair

want me holding her, Kalen. Not after what I did,” Darius says, and I tried to blink, try

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

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 back to look at

how long it would last before

monster I encountered in the classroom. No, this was a different side, one 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

I need to if I am to give it back,” he murmurs though, by the look on his face, he appeared to be conflicted. I too, was conflicted

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