Tasting Darkness

Read Tasting Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 2 Chapter 24 – Aleera

They killed him. They killed my mate, and I returned to my senses as I hit the ground. I had lost all control, driven by anger so hot I thought I would combust. “Aleera,” Lycus murmured as I tried to clear my vision, my anger dying down and replaced with sadness and a hollowness that would never be filled; I was dead inside. And I felt my magic crashing as I did, seeping back into the earth, yet my magic was recharged, energized, yet ice cold in my veins when I heard Ryze screech. The fighting had stopped, and the bodies of our men and the power hunters lay on the ground. Few had survived, yet all I Bl Tasting Darkness Chapter 24 could think was Kalen was gone.

That cold, sinking feeling made my bones ache as it settled over me. The weight was heavy, and I was drowning in despair. Is this what they felt every time he killed himself? No wonder they hated me. I couldn’t live with this feeling, yet as my eyes searched for his body amongst the others, all I could see was carnage. “Kalen.” I whimpered when Ryze screeched again, and I looked for him. Only to see what was left of my phoenixes huddled where his body lay. My eyes widen, and I choke and sputter at what I see.

He was being eaten by them. They were eating him. I screamed at them, getting to my feet and running toward them.

1 “No, stop! Stop,” I sobbed, racing to stop 66 them from mutilating him more. Lycus and Tobias were also running toward him too.

I lift my hand and blast them with my magic, only for it to hit some invisible barrier and be deflected back at us, knocking us all on our asses.

Fury courses through me that they would betray me like this, and I sit with a crying scream when I see one phoenix collapse. Then another.

ruffling feathers and chirping screeches, fluttered over him, and all I could see were his legs as they covered him before dropping one by one and bursting into flames around him when the one on

Or so I thought. My infinity mark burns, erupting with power, and warmth floods through me, and I gasp,

grey, and his name was etched in a bright blue like the others. I stared at the marking and clutched

him to jolt upright with a harsh wheeze as he sucked in air. Ash and X soot covering every

I murmured, and he breathed as if he had been holding his

throat.” Kalen!” Lycus shrieked a sob, and he turned his head to look at us. They weren’t eating him; they were resurrecting him. With a cry, we were all on our feet, racing toward him when he looked down at his naked legs

first and clutch him tight, immense relief washing through me when he hugs me back. I kiss his face, every part of it, when he makes a strangled noise, making me realize my relief of him being alive was now strangling

pulled back, and I look at him, seeing Darius and the other racing toward us. They were meters away from

throws his hand out, and our mates slow, stopping as he looks around himself. I looked down at the ground, wondering what was wrong, fearing he

to the ground, the ash rippling as the phoenixes come back from the ashes in tiny featherless bodies. 4×6 “Phoenix chicks,” I whisper, and he chokes a sob

the phoenixes that saved him move the soot and pop their heads out, giving a chirp. Ryze flies over and perches heavily on my shoulder,