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.

come to get me. I am too low to portal,” Darius

leaving Thomas and Darius on the phone call only. More screams sound,

“Fuck, Darius,”

“I might not even

“‘I know it is,”

know that,” Darius tells

is right there, Darius. I can feel her power. She is…” The phone cuts out for a second, and Darius looks at

their

he steps through it and loses the power, he could be lost between realms. He curses at the transparent matter flickers before looking at

at his hellhounds, and they leap through the portal, yet when he glances back

her,” he says, but Thomas 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

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

Tobias finally reaches him. His hands latched 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 killed him were yours,” I

strewn across the pavement. I swallowed as Tobias collapsed

moves me closer to them and points to the A written in his own blood beside his body. My

thought he

meant you abandoned him,”

He tossed me

know. Those woods surround Astrid,”

“Astrid?” I ask him.

were at home all those days. We just had