Tasting Darkness

Chapter 109

Read Tasting Darkness [Tempting Darkness] By Jessica Hall Book 2 Chapter 30 – Turning my attention back to the chicks in the crate I watch as they squirm, wondering what they have been feeding them. Yet as they got louder, the others began to wake, and Lycus groans before climbing out of bed and stumbling half asleep over to the crates. He tips the crates up, making my eyes widen before he starts removing his clothes.

I wonder what he is doing when he shifts abruptly, giving me a view of his ass in my face before he flops onto his stomach

and lies on his side. The squirming chicks rush to him, bouncing on the floor, and I laugh as they burrow into his fur. He puffs out a loud wheezing breath while the chicks get lost in his fur.

“About time he made himself useful. If only he would sleep in this form every night, we may get some sleep,” Tobias says, brushing his fingers through Lycus’s fur. The chicks squirm in his fur, popping their heads and chirping quietly while snuggling into him as if he was their personal warm nest.

Tobias carefully steps over him and falls heavily onto the couch beside me. His hands reach for me instantly as he drags me up his body and lifts his legs, turning slightly, so I am lying with him behind me.

“Where did Darius go?” he murmurs, his l*ps in my hair as he speaks. “No, Idea. We had an argument,” I tell him.

“About you shredding and not being able to mark him?” Tobias asks, tucking me closer. I nod, watching Lycus wolf form, worried he would roll on them and crush them. But he remains still as a statue.

“He’ll come around, Aleera. He is just scared,” Tobias says, and it made me wonder if it was to do with me at all or if he did something to one of them without knowing. My eyes flick to the mantle where Ryze was perched and to the photo of Thomas, Tobias’s brother. It was a sore subject, and I never mentioned him or how I recognized him, and I know Tobias thinks I abandoned him, but I didn’t. I just couldn’t get back to him.

“Your brother..” Tobias tenses behind me. “Aleera!” he breathes as if he doesn’t want the reminder I am to blame for his death.

“I’m sorry that he died because of me. And I’m sorry he died saving me,” I whisper. Tobias moves behind me, his arm draped over me, pulling me tighter against him.

gone alone. We told him to

Kalen,”

do you know

the first time I have seen a rainbow aura? I knew there would be something special about you,” I repeat his brother’s words. It was also

were,” I swallowed, knowing my using my magic trying to escape is what got him killed. Guilt floods me, and the pain emanating from Tobias saddens me and makes me feel cold

I never abandoned him. I tried to open the portal

you mean?” he asks, tugging me back so I

Told me you would come for me,

didn’t he step through with

as if he knew there was something worse out

could feel your brother’s power. He was strong. He could have taken

made sense to me. He could manipulate those beasts, change their thought pattern, so when we showed up, and I

I asked, a

the pavement but died before

I killed him?” shame washes through the bond, and

Left him for dead,” Tobias answers. He doesn’t say much after

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