Tasting Darkness

Read Tasting Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 2 Chapter 32 – Darius was in some warehouse. He presses his hand to a wall and curses because of how low his magic is. Hellhounds followed him like obedient little pets, and I gasped, looking at him. And he swallowed when his phone rang. The hellhounds wandered off as he answered it. It was a three-way call; Tobias and Thomas’ faces appeared on the phone.

“Thomas,” Darius says, watching his hellhounds look around.

“What’s up?” Tobias asks his brother, who appears to be in a different location.

“I felt her. She is close,”

“Where are you?” Darius asks, whistling loudly and his hellhounds come bounding back toward him.

“Outside, Astrid,” Thomas tells him, and I blink, and Darius’ eyes bore into mine, watching my reaction to his words. I searched for Astrid city and could never find it. When Kalen, words from months ago come back to me. It isn’t a city but a name.

“Wait for us. We will come to you,” Tobias tells his brother.

“I think she is in trouble,”

“Thomas, wait for us. You don’t know what you’re running into,” Darius tells him, and his brows furrow when a scream sounds in the background. My scream.

“Thomas. Don’t wait for us,”

“Sorry, brother, but this one is special.”

“Thomas, send me your location, now!” Tobias screams at his brother.

You need to come to get me. I am too low to

stay put, “the phone cuts out, leaving Thomas and Darius on the phone call only. More screams sound, and it must have been when I escaped the first lot. I

“Fuck, Darius,”

“I might not even be

“‘I know it is,”

that,” Darius tells

right there, Darius. I can feel her power. She is…” The phone cuts out

their location of

the power, he could be lost between realms. He curses at the

he snaps at his hellhounds, and

is gone. The phone is dead, and he tries to call him back but gets no answer. He tries to Tobias, but no answer as he then tries to open another portal as

me,” I whisper to Darius as he watches himself panic, burning his magic

onto Tobias in panic, tossing him back through the portal. And I find myself back in the parking lot where it all happened. The scream that left him when he saw his brother’s body was blood curdling “The hellhounds that

his hellhounds, finding them slaughtered and their body parts strewn across the pavement. I swallowed as Tobias

A written

he meant

thought it meant you abandoned

didn’t. He tossed me through

know. Those woods

“Astrid?” I ask him.

castle. You were at home all those days. We just had to go home,” Darius murmurs as he walks over to one of his torn-apart