Tasting Darkness

Read Tasting Darkness [Tempting Darkness] By Jessica Hall Book 2 Chapter 27 – Tobias POV

I have officially concluded that I am not father material. Aleera has been asleep for two days and is showing no signs of waking anytime soon. Her phoenixes were driving everyone insane. Chirping little fuckers were always hungry, and we had to syringe feed the balls of fleshy mush.

Once again, I awoke in the middle of the night, or was it day? It has been two days, and I was losing track of time already. Fuck doing that for months on end, years even. At least Ryze knew not to shit on the damn floor or your shoulder when holding him. These bastards had no manners. And were devouring more worms than we could dig up. We had resorted to hand feeding them mushed up Weetbix with a syringe.

“I need sleep,” Lycus growls, rolling into me. Placing his hand on my chest, he sleepily blinks down at me, a smirk on his lips.

“I will suck and fuck the life out of you if you do this feed for me.” I shake my head. It was his turn.

“Please? I need my beauty sleep. You could go without sleep for a year and still be pretty,” Lycus says between yawning. He drops his head on my chest, and I hear Darius chuckle as Lycus tries to bribe me.

“Please? I won’t even complain while doing it,” he purrs. I roll my eyes.

“No complaining of a sore jaw or chapped lips, “I growl at him, and he pats my chest, rolling off to face Aleera as I climb out of bed. Stretching my arms above my head, I look at Darius, who has a chick in his hands, as he forces the syringe in its beak to feed it before grabbing the next.

“Lycus will suck your dick if you make me coffee,” I volunteer the germ that woke me. “He already owes me a dick sucking for doing his night shift,” Darius says, and I glare at Lycus.

“That fucker is getting more sleep than all of us,” I groan, feeling a little used. That little bitch will be paying up, or I will pin him down and fuck his face. Either way, he is licking these nuts.

“Get in line. He’s got a lot of dick to suck. Pretty sure he owes Kalen one too,” Darius says, and I shake my head, cursing Lycus internally for tricking me.

Sitting next to Darius, I grab a bird and syringe and help him feed the squeaking hungry birds. Ryze flies into the room moments later, and I try not to throw up when he helps feed them.

tells him as Ryze feeds a few from the other

me and has been back and forth out

tell him, and he nods, glancing at the bed at our mates. “I don’t think they just sense her, though.

when he holds up a hand and cuts me

I know what you are going

is you’re hiding, she’ll forgive you,” I

I am worried about. She may forgive me,” he mutters. “Then what is it? “I ask

He tosses it in and turns back to the birds. I sigh, changing the topic, knowing that one

ask him, and he

and I knew he was right. There was only one group of power hunters

never saw her,” I tell him,

even knew why

think she

not even the council, are crazy enough to step foot into my Kingdom,” Darius says, and he was right. We had never been attacked here before,

been looking for infinite power source flares and Aleera.” He peers around at the crates of Phoenixes. “These birds, they

to tell Aleera her mother is hunting her?” I ask him, reaching for another bird. He hushes me,

me,

tell him. Honesty was the only way we would get through

“I can’t,” he whispers.

she sees the truth, she will