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.

for us, Tobias. You need to come to get me. I am too low to

my way, I mean it, Thomas, 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

“Fuck, Darius,”

Darius tells him. “I might not

“‘I know it is,”

that,”

her power. She is…” The phone cuts out

and their location

it and loses the power, he could be lost between realms. He curses at the transparent matter

snaps at his hellhounds, and they leap through the portal,

him back but gets no answer. He tries to

to Darius as he watches himself panic, burning his magic

his magic out further until 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

for his hellhounds, finding them slaughtered and their body parts strewn across the pavement. I swallowed as Tobias collapsed beside his brother, trying to revive him. Wailing loudly, clutching his brother to him, whose body was torn

A written in his own blood beside

thought he

you

I didn’t. He tossed me

Those woods

“Astrid?” I ask him.

home Aleera that is the name of the demonic kingdom, the castle. You were at home all those days. We just had to go home,”