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.

from before, different from the rabbit, darker, twisted, cold. It was like everything darkness could be,

magic was strong; it appeared by their markings and the surging bonds that their Keeper would be a powerhouse. They both saw freedom, and sadness bled into me,

take their freedom back, and

his neck and looking around. He was confused until the bells sounded and I walked down the front steps. I walked straight

wonder if it was because they had manifested and I wasn’t of age. I didn’t

“F****k!” Darius curses.

who has no idea who we are to her,” Tobias says as they watch me

out about her,” Darius

If my father finds out about

can’t know either. He’ll force me to mark her,” “So what do we do? What if the others come for her?” Tobias asks him. They both knew why my mark was faded, I was underage, and I, as an

we cloak her,” “Cloak

Kalen and Lycus come for her, we don’t know them or what they are willing to do if they find her,”

school; it was odd because I was terribly sick that night.

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

I noticed them, I would have thought it creepy, yet their intentions were anything but. Their only intention 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 Kalen

my brain no matter how much I tried to forget it. My mother forced me to go to school, I had begged and pleaded to 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 Tobias and Darius seeing him drive out of the driveway with me was nearly as

and Tobias grips his arm as he went to start the car to

daughter’s mate. He wouldn’t hurt his

I

to hide our house, hide my mother and me from the world. It took them half the day to break through them to find my mother at home. She immediately

the ground, the day I lost my parents, only I relived 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 exhausted a good chunk

girl he barely knew because I was theirs and they would do anything to keep me,

and they took me to my grandmother and cloaked

Both of their fathers demanded answers from them both.

spent his entire life protecting, and Thomas, I found, took it without complaint, trusting his

of Tobias’ memories fizzled and died out, I learned Darius was the only reliable constant person in Tobias’s and Thomas’s life; I understood why Darius felt guilty. Seeing Tobias’ grief as he

he did for his twin. For his other half and Darius unknowingly took him from him, and so did I. Darius loved him just as much, and I now understood the destruction I

to keep power, and all 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

Darius whispers to him, trying to make him let

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