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.

arm, yet it is different from before, different from the rabbit, darker, twisted, cold. It was like everything darkness could be, amplified but

the surging bonds that their Keeper would be a powerhouse. They both saw freedom, and sadness bled into

be bound to their families. They could both take their freedom back, and I was that freedom to them.

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

had manifested and I

“F****k!” Darius curses.

she is our keeper, but I am not dragging some young girl off who has no idea who we are to her,” Tobias says

can’t find out about

her parents. If my father finds out about her; he will drag

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

who her parents are. Speak with them, and we cloak her,” “Cloak her?”

turn her world upside down and have Kalen and Lycus come for her, we don’t know

go to school; it was odd because I was terribly sick that night. They had

blocks and almost completely obscured by trees that ran either side of the dirt driveway. The three vacant blocks on either side made the place look like a dead end. Until

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

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 strong as finding out I was a

and Tobias grips his arm as he went to start the

her father, Darius. You’re his daughter’s mate. He wouldn’t hurt his own

was kept a secret, why I was never

both of them, and they had to back out of the driveway. Darius and Tobias both got out to find they had crossed wards, wards my father put in place to hide our house, hide my

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

used his magic to heal me instead of himself. Healed some girl he barely knew because I was

me and they took me to my grandmother and

as dark and twisted as Lycus’ or Kalen’s, yet his struggles were just as brutal when he returned home with Darius. Both of their fathers demanded answers

He chose me over the one person he spent his entire life protecting, and Thomas, I found, took it without complaint, trusting his brother had

only reliable constant person in Tobias’s and Thomas’s life; I understood why Darius felt guilty. Seeing Tobias’ grief as he tried to heal Thomas, begging the fates to take

Thomas, everything he did, he did for his twin. For his other half and Darius unknowingly took him from him, and so did I. Darius loved

had turned their backs on their family for me, had his title removed because he took the others as his mates 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 back in their faces as I felt the agony of Tobias’s loss. His brother clutched in his arms, his mutilated body tom

Darius whispers to him, trying to make him

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255