Tasting Darkness

Chapter 96

Tempting Darkness By jessicahall Book 2 Chapter 17

Lycus hesitates, then snatched the vial from Darius. He sniffs it before passing it to Tobias, who does the same. He purses his lips but nods to Darius, who then stabs the needle in my thigh. I felt nothing. It made me wonder why this time I was paralyzed or if it was a side effect of him hurting my bond because he had stolen my magic plenty of times before and it never affected me like this.

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“Did you give her back her magic?” Tobias asked, leaning over me. All I could do was stare at him.

I wished I could speak their anger toward Darius though warranted was upsetting Kalen, and I could feel the darkness swirling in him. The depressiveness of it tainting him, and it scared me. I knew how low he could get, and their anger was not helping him.

3 5 “She wouldn’t take it back,” Darius murmured, and the guilt on his face was clear as he looked at Kalen, who smiled sadly, sweeping my hair back over my shoulder before laying his head beside mine on the pillow. Yet as the day turned to night, Darius moved toward the couch and slept on it.

Yet as the bond awoke more I felt Darius’s guilt, felt Kalen’s anguish, and Tobias and Lycus’s anger. All of them. And it made me realize how broken they all were, just like my bond was. I hated the feelings they invoked, hated how they all felt.

I suddenly hated being their keeper because the yearning I had inside to fix it was almost unbearable, and part of me knew some things weren’t forgivable. However despite that, I knew forgiveness was what Darius needed, what Kalen wanted and what the other two refused to give.

anger because it needed Darius just as much as the others. And Tobias and

by the more my movement returned, until eventually I rolled myself over as I felt Kalen climb out of bed. Sitting up, I heard him muttering to himself, pacing the room, when I realized Darius was no longer asleep on the

and this was the darkest part

5 50 19000 hands in front of his face, but it was as if he couldn’t see me despite looking directly at me. It

Ryze, who I hadn’t noticed was perched on the windowsill, flew over to me, he pecked at the door by my feet and I opened the bathroom door and

rubbed his beak on his cheek and earning a swat from Darius, who was snoring softly. Ryze bit his finger, making Darius lurch upright just as I reached the side of the small bed. “Fuck off, birdbrain!” Darius growls, reaching for the

side. Darius jumps and Ryze rubs his beak over his stubble, his snake- like split tongue licking him. It was odd seeing Ryze get along with Darius. Or

Ryze jumps off him and jumps along the floor toward the other room ahead of us. I watch as Darius reaches for a shirt that hangs over the back of

Ryze perched on the windowsill again. I pet his feathers and he coos softly as I watch Darius.

my voice was oddly calm. Darius pauses and watches Kalen for a second. “You know I didn’t mean to hurt him or you?” Darius asks and I

him,” I tell him, motioning toward the bed. “But does me staying hurt you?” “You already did that Darius. You can’t hurt me more

wasn’t you. I could see that. But whatever you’re hiding won’t remain hidden, Darius. We all have secrets, and me not marking you won’t stop me from figuring them out. But for now, get in the 5 figuring

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