Tasting Darkness

Read Tasting Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 2 Chapter 26 – Darius POV

Kalen tucked her closer as goosebumps pricked her skin, and she finally succumbed to the exhaustion. “We should get her inside. I think a storm is coming. The air is still charged,” Lycus says, and I could feel his guilt. He believed this was his fault. I watch as he sniffs the air, looking at the dark clouds rolling across the sky, the heavy clouds and how fast it began to darken told me it would be a big one, that and the silence of the forest earlier while setting the wards up. “What are we going to do with all these chicks?” Tobias states, grabbing one basket as I retrieved the other before my eyes fall on Aleera.

“Are you right with her?” I ask Kalen, watching him stand with her limp body in his arms. “Of course,” He nodded, but for once, I noticed the darkness that usually surrounded him with death didn’t this time, making me stare down at the basket in my hands of the tiny birds responsible for bringing him back to us. There was no cold feeling through the bond, no numbness, just Kalen. “More importantly, how are we going to feed them? I am not worm hunting or feeding them with syringes,” Lycus growls. I look at what’s left of my men.

They all begin to shake their heads, their eyes darting to each other nervously. They may be fine with the tiny powerless chicks, but I could see they didn’t want them as pets. “We’ll figure it out, but we can’t get rid of them,” I tell him. They saved Kalen and O sacrificed their lives for my mates, and I would make sure each one survived.

We lost a few that were drained when killed, no magic left to bring them back, and the flock was down to half of what it was. So these ones needed to survive.

“We’ll go look for worms and small critters,” one of my men called out. They may not like the Phoenixes.

However, they all knew the phoenixes and Aleera were the only reason any of them were still breathing.

Yet some part of me also knew the attack wouldn’t have happened if they weren’t here. “Be sure to be inside before the storm hits.

They wave me off, and we head inside and back

Aleera on the bed. I had no doubt he had paired

glanced at the window, watching the birds zip past, peering in the windows as they do so. “Aleera Queen of the flock,” Tobias chuckled and shook

like that,” Lycus says, moving toward the bed. Lycus sits beside her where Kalen had set her down,

power surge, it was to her hips. Her hair was so dark it was almost obsidian, and the ends had

her shirt open, his fingers lightly tracing over her skin and the

in awe. I never thought I would ever see wings on a Fae again, yet hers were something out of this world, no out of the

her tattoo -like wings etched into her delicate skin, marvelous patterns of red, black, and gold feathers tattooed into her flesh from between her shoulder blades to

same patterned feathers down the outsides of

she shivers as a rippling wave effect had the feathered design move in waves as they flexed beneath her skin, making him jump. 11 “That is cool, but damn is

finger, where the feathers sliced him as they rippled from his touch.

now, with her magic running through my veins, it feels cold,” Tobias states, flexing his fingers in front of him. His magic glows and mist runs between his fingers likes snakes coiling

side. It was triggered, so she brought it forth to protect