Tasting Darkness

Chapter 110

Read Tasting Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 2 Chapter 31 – “What is this place?” I ask him, looking around. This place gave me the shivers like it was full of dark energy. It felt like I walked into a tomb or over someone’s grave. Darius says nothing, making me look back at him to find his eerie demonic eyes watching me.

“You shouldn’t have come down here,” he snaps at me as his hands slam against the wall on either side of my head. The moment they do, lights flicker, and I hear the sound of a generator turning on, the fluorescent lights on the roof blink to life, illuminating the space.

“It’s a bunker,” he finally says, pushing off the wall and stepping away from me.

“Why are you here?”

“I followed you. Don’t ask me how

because I don’t know how,” I tell him, looking around the space. I find a tiny kitchen, a bunk bed, and scattered belonging that look old and abandoned. Drawings were on the walls in crayons and pastels, and teddies were on the bed with more dust than stuffing.

I move around the space, looking around, yet I feel his gaze on my back as he follows me. Yet the more I looked, the more I was sure of where I was.

“This is where your mother and sister hid during the plague?” I ask him, glancing at him over my shoulder. He neither agrees nor denies, but I know I am right.

“Have the others been down here?”

“No, and you shouldn’t be down here.” Turning around, I face him, looking him over. He seemed pissed that I intruded, but that are whicomanian

but at least here, we had some privacy away from our mates. And maybe he might tell me something.

“Tobias is awake,” I tell him. “He’s having a shower,” he says nothing, just stares.

“We were talking about his brother,” I mention feeling the bond when he slams his walls up, blocking me out. But he wasn’t quick enough, and I noted the flash of guilt that hit me.

“Tobias doesn’t know, does he?” I ask him.

“Tobias doesn’t know what. There is a lot Tobias doesn’t know, Aleera,” Darius tells me, and I knew I was onto something.

“Doesn’t know you blame yourself for his brother’s death,” I whisper. Darius stares

at me for a few seconds.

“You think because I have guilt, it has to do with Tobias?”

it?” I ask

and you are opening closets full of skeletons that

what this place is, isn’t it? Your closet full of skeletons, though I don’t think you realize the monsters you think you keep locked down here

past, Darius. It doesn’t

to mark me won’t set me free, Aleera. It will

I already am one of your skeletons,” I muse. Darius laughs, the sound as

of the gatekeepers. If I let you in, all this becomes yours to live with, too. Don’t you get

Your past, the shit you have done?” Darius says nothing, but I could tell he was getting annoyed with this situation, annoyed with me intruding on his privacy and creeping into his creepy bunker

Darius. Because if you don’t, I will keep prying

you! What else could you be

protecting me from?”

as his power surges. “Everything I touch, everyone I love, I kill, and you will be the same as the rest of them,”

still here, Darius. They ain’t dead

of me because he couldn’t have you. I could have brought you home, and I didn’t. Tobias, what I did, killed him, maybe not physically,

him, and Lycus, my father, destroyed because I swouldn’t

to know, but you don’t want to live with the guilt of what I have done to our mates. That will kill you! “he tells me, gripping

as he walks me backward, and I grit my teeth, gripping his

out what he was keeping from us, so instead of arguing with

try to siphon his magic, yet his resistance is hard to manage. But I am his keeper, and once my bond latched on to his power.

wrapping us inside a bubble of his power, a bubble

and my heart hammered as the

hand on my arms

are we?” Darius murmurs

was the one and only time I used my magic to portal,” I had told

place?”

what Kalen had told me, and it sent me here,

spot,” I whisper to him. Not that the memories of

life, which was a regular

between the forest at one end of the parking lot. A forest that no doubt had

I nod. Watched as he approached me in the memory,

sun? The first time I have seen a rainbow aura? I knew there would be something special about you,” came a voice that

hearing the footsteps of the

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