Tasting Darkness

Chapter 124

Read Tasting Darkness [Tempting Darkness] By Jessica Hall Book 2 Chapter 41 – The next memory morphed to their eighteenth birthday. Tobias heard a portal open and sat up, rubbing his eyes, his powers had manifested during the night, but too exhausted to care he never checked his infinity mark. He knew the familiar energy to be that of Darius. He yawns, stretching his arms above his head. Darius smirked as he stepped through the portal into Tobias’s room, holding up his wrist. “It appears we are destined, brother,” Darius tells him.

Tobias’ brows furrow as he yawns, looking at his wrist when Darius rubs his fingers over the infinity mark on his own, and Tobias gasps, glancing at his own when warmth spreads up his arm. Tobias chuckles. “Well, looks like you’re not getting rid of me now,” Tobias smiles. He was glad that his best friend was destined to be part of his life. Their brotherly bond is now completely solidified.

 

Tobias stares down at the names on his wrist. “F***k, feel sorry for whoever she is. I wonder who the other two are?” Tobias says, brushing his fingers over Kalen and Lycus’ names.

“No idea; I called on them but got no reply,”

“Probably saw our names and went to hide under a rock,” Tobias groaned.

“I’m more interested in why her name is faded,” Darius says, reaching for Tobias’s to see if he is the same. My name was etched into both their wrists, yet mine was faint. Tobias glances at Darius’.

“What do you think it means?” Tobias asks him, and Darius’ eyes darken.

“One way to find out is to get dressed,” Darius tells him.

“What about the other two?”

“They’ll come to us when ready. Give them a chance to come around to it, and the idea of us, that would be a bit much for anyone to take in. Their magic is strong, hers I can hardly feel,” Darius tells him, and Tobias gets to his feet and grabs some clothes, pulling on some black jeans and a gray shirt. Just as Darius stepped toward him and grabbed his wrist, Thomas entered the room.

Tobias instantly rushed to him and snatched up his hand, only for Thomas to pull away. “What is it?” Tobias asked him, grabbing his twin’s wrist to see who he was destined for. Only when he does and turns Thomas’s wrist over. Thomas’ wrist was blank. No mates, his infinity symbol was there. It just held no names.

“Wait? But-” “It’s fine, Tobias. Maybe my mates were white fae,” Thomas tells him, but they all knew what that meant, that one day Thomas would run out of magic without his Keeper and mates.

“Who did you get?” Thomas asked him, grabbing for Tobias’ wrist. He turns it over to see our names and smiles.

“Well, what are you waiting for?

Go find them and bring them home,” Thomas tells him. Tobias’ stomach sinks. Guilt set in that he had four mates and a keeper. In contrast, Thomas wasn’t granted even one.

“It’s fine, Tobias; the fates just have me destined for bigger things, you’ll see,” Tobias’ guilt nags him, but once Thomas leaves, Darius steps closer and grabs Tobias’s wrist drawing his attention back to what they were doing.

thumb brushes over the mark and power sings up his arm, yet it is different from before, different from the rabbit, darker, twisted, cold. It was like everything darkness could be,

Darius laughs, excited that they had both fully manifested, that their magic was strong; it appeared by their markings and the surging bonds that their Keeper

their families. They could both take their freedom back, and I was that freedom to them. Until the portal

teacher?” Tobias asks, scratching the back of his neck and looking around. He was confused until the bells sounded and I walked down the front steps. I walked straight past them without

because they had manifested and I wasn’t of age. I didn’t even glance up as I walked

“F****k!” Darius curses.

our keeper, but I am not dragging some young girl off who has no idea who we are to her,” Tobias says as they watch me walk

can’t find out about her,” Darius

parents. If my father finds out

what do we do? What if the others come for her?” Tobias asks him. They both

out who her parents are. Speak with them, and we cloak her,” “Cloak her?” Tobias asks, knowing the amount of power that would take to

for her, we don’t know them

night they camped outside my house up the street where the bus dropped me off, waiting for me to go to school; it was odd because I was terribly sick that night. They had slept in their car at the end of

ran either side of the dirt driveway. The three vacant blocks on either side made the place look like a dead end. Until

was to make sure my other two mates didn’t try to come for me. They stayed to keep me safe, unsure of who Lycus and

go to a real school, and now I was tossing it in her face by saying I wasn’t going. Instead, dad drove me and the shock of

grips his arm as he went to start the car to go

her father, Darius. You’re his daughter’s mate.

I was kept a secret, why I was never registered with the council.

Tobias both got out to find they had crossed wards, wards my father put in place to hide our house, hide my mother and me from the world. It took them half the day to break through them to find

it from Tobias’s point of view, and I found everything Darius had told me was the truth. They left and only returned when they felt my distress, Tobias suffered severe burns trying to save me, while Darius

knew because I was theirs and they would do anything to keep me, knowing

me and they took me

home with Darius. Both of their fathers demanded answers from them both.

to give me up despite knowing he was causing his brother pain. He chose me over the one person he spent his entire

person in Tobias’s and Thomas’s life; I understood why Darius felt guilty. Seeing Tobias’ grief as he tried to heal Thomas,

turned to the bottle. For years he held himself together, and all for Thomas, everything he did, he did for his twin. For his other half and Darius unknowingly took him from him, and so did I.

to keep me safe, to let me grow up, and me running made it look like it was all for nothing. I basically threw it all back in their faces as I felt the agony of Tobias’s

Darius whispers to him, trying to

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