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?”

I ask in

nothing, Aleera, and you are opening closets full

Your closet full of skeletons, though I don’t think you realize the monsters you think you keep locked down

a past, Darius. It doesn’t mean we should

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

one of your skeletons,” I muse.

Aleera. You aren’t one of my skeletons. You’re one of the gatekeepers. If I let you in, all this becomes yours to live with, too. Don’t you get it? It isn’t just about losing them

Your past, the shit you have done?” Darius says nothing, but I could tell he was getting annoyed with this situation,

you don’t, I will keep prying until

And I forgave you! What else could

you be protecting me from?” I

me while stalking toward me, and the lights flicker as his power surges. “Everything I touch, everyone I love,

and Kalen are still here, Darius. They

have brought you home, and

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

what I have done to our mates. That will kill you! “he tells me, gripping my arms, his hands heating,

walks me backward, and I grit my teeth, gripping his arms back and turning his

so instead of

is hard to

completely around, wrapping us inside a bubble of his power,

watching it and my heart hammered as the memory pulled

on my arms

we?” Darius murmurs next to

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

place?” he

looking for Astrid City. I tried to envision what Kalen had told me, and it sent me here,

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

running, running for my damn life, which was a regular occurrence now that I

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

and I nod. Watched as he approached me in

have seen a rainbow aura? I knew there would be something special

me. He smiled before hearing

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