Tasting Darkness

Read Tasting Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 2 Chapter 21 –  Aleera POV

As I got dressed, I couldn’t help but wonder what caused the anger sizzling through the bond. I knew it had something to do with Lycus’s father, yet it seemed like so much more than that. Yet I couldn’t ask because it was obvious whatever it was, they didn’t want Kalen to know. So instead, I followed Darius down to the training grounds. Kalen was particularly antsy today, jittery and excitable, and I was sure it was the buzz of Darius’ magic that caused it. Darius watched him as we walked, and I could sense Darius’s worry and moved to slip my hand in Kalen’s as I caught up to him. The recruits were all waiting by the training grounds, nervously looking  Tasting Darkness Book 2 Chapter 21 around, when I noticed the hundreds of Phoenixes on the roof.

I gulped, knowing my magic had brought them here, yet Darius didn’t seem to mind as they watched with their eagle-like eyes. The men took their places, yet no one moved to train with me, and Kalen wasn’t allowed, so I faced Darius instead. He quirked an eyebrow at me. “Challenge accepted then. Don’t think I will go easy on you because you’re a girl,” he chuckles. I smile at the challenge. “And don’t think I will go easy on you because you’re my mate!” I tell him, and the gasps from the crowd of men were loud. They knew, but it was the first time I had outwardly claimed them back.

Yet Darius doesn’t seem mad at my words. “We’ll see then,” he chuckles, moving into the circle. 7 Tasting Darkness Book 2 Chapter 21 For the most part, we worked on fire magic, seeing as that is what most of those here contained. Yet as Darius and I trained, I was beginning to understand why he was so feared among them.

He had not only the stamina to keep up with my attacks but those the men would sometimes hurl his away. He didn’t even break a sweat while I was becoming drained of power and exhausted from it. My vision blurs as I dodge another of his fireballs

. Our training had turned into a game of violent dodgeball. Everyone joined in. Yet I was exhausted when Darius called out for everyone to pack up. Yet as they moved around, they were still fooling around, and a fireball raced past me, and he growled, catching it and hurling it back, making the man who tossed it scream when it caught his clothes alight.

to see one coming straight toward me. Ducking a blue ball of flames from one recruit, I shriek when another is hurled, and I close my eyes, waiting

about to be burned, when I felt the heat blast around me, only to open my eyes to see the fireball split in half and go around me; the whistling of the wind was loud and I realized Darius used air magic to deflect it. His growl is

on, Darius!” one of the recruits screams out, none of them wanting to

yet the energy around the field we stood on

and I wasn’t going to question him, I was exhausted, and power drained, yet as I blinked, walking toward Kalen, my vision blurred, and my stomach cramped from the stitch in my side. Suddenly, the field goes quiet, and I rub my

his face makes me turn to see portals opening up everywhere on the field. Stunned, I stopped when one

up, and I stopped in my tracks when I saw Darius turn to look at Kalen and I before wind rushed toward me, and I

to smash into the ground when his magic dropped abruptly, and the portal closed. I shake myself, rolling off Kalen to see Darius fighting alongside his men as they try to stop them from getting

ripping on my arm and trying to pull us away from the fray. “Kalen, get her out of here!” Darius screamed before being blasted with green E 6009 7 xx magic and tossed into the castle’s