Tasting Darkness

Read Tasting Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 2 Chapter 23 – Lycus POV

Everything stopped. My entire world stopped as a pain I wished I hadn’t felt time and time again washed through me. It sucked the air from my lungs, and my body stopped fighting. The searing pain coursing through every nerve ending forced me to shift back, leaving me on top of the corpse of the person I had just killed. Yet it didn’t save him. Only then do I see Kalen’s name on my infinity mark turn grey fading out. He was dead, yet my heart still beat loudly in my chest. I do not know how, for I wished it stopped beating when his did. Yet the agonized scream of my mates made the world silent except for their agony. It was like time stopped when we all did. 4009 Turning my head, he lay there, dead, cold, and covered in blood.

Lying in the dirt as if he wasn’t the center that held us together, we were nothing without Kalen. He was our glue, and time and time again, he held us together and us him, knowing without him, none of us could go on living. Tobias collapsed to his knees. Just giving up. The same feeling coursed through me, and I resigned myself to death. Darius staggers, and I turn my attention to Kalen’s lifeless form sprawled on the grass pooled in his own blood. Aleera rushed over to him.

Tears streaked her face as she clutched him as if she alone could put him back together. Despite this, it was far too late for anything to be done. Kalen wouldn’t come back this time. His heart had 6 ケ 60 stopped. Yet still, she tried as she beat his chest and shook him before she screamed.

The power hunters even stopped at the sound of her scream, it guttural and tortured, emitting the dead hollowness she felt inside. Momentarily shocked, they all turned their attention toward her when she realized he was not coming back.

Ryze flies over, drops on her shoulder, and licks her cheek as her shoulders shake with her sobs. His presence jolted her, shocking her with his magic. Her head lifted, and her eyes glowed with her burning rage. I could feel it in every fiber of her being as she jolted the bond, awakening us from our heartbroken stupor, and I saw Darius start fighting with new zeal.

As if her anger alone was enough to push 9000 60 Co us to keep fighting.

And it was as Tobias got to his feet. Yet I was frozen, dead inside, as I saw her lean down and kiss Kalen’s lips. She whispers something to him before laying his head down on the ground before she stands, and I feel the entire ground ripple with her anger.

himself could touch it. As she flexed her fingers, the ground quaked and quivered, cracking, and the sky turned dark as if she sucked all the light out of the

light wasn’t stolen. Clouds

hotter than anything I had ever felt. Looking up, I see Aleera raise her arms, and a chorus of screeches filled the air, making me cover my ears as it drilled through

clench my eyes and grit my teeth, only opening

the bond, but it didn’t burn as hot as her anger. No, that was far hotter as the phoenixes fried her with ケ C 60 O hotter as the phoenixes fried her with their magic. The tunneling

sky, bursting into flames as they gave their lives and magic to her. Each phoenix that dropped made her burn brighter

and collapses on the ground, panting. When I noticed most of the Power hunters zero in on her, they

harness, yet when she looked up, I stopped in my tracks, my claws biting into the ground

of what I was seeing as I stood in front

wasn’t manipulating darkness. She wasn’t

darkness. Gold tendrils slivered down from her face when she dug her fingers in the ground, the gold streaking out and splitting the earth and

standing, and I gasped when I saw her

Wings

any wings I had seen before. White Fae used to have wings, crystalline or white, yet hers were black with gold and red streaking through them. Aleera, also shocked at her new attachment, gasps before flexing them and blinking, regathering herself before turning her gaze to her