Tasting Darkness By Jessicahall Chapter 41
Chapter 41
Aleera POV
For the past three days, I have felt terribly sick. I don’t know if it’s because I have only been getting half
a breakfast a day since I shared with Ryze, or because of the bond. The siren for the next ss
sounded, and I groaned. I wished I had a theory ss all day; I would have even put up with Darius
and Tobias’s torment. Thest thing I felt like doing was that damn obstacle course.
Darius looked over at me and ced my head on the desk, not wanting to go. I felt hot, and my skin
was mmy. My stomach was twisting violently, and I was hungry as well as pained. “Aleera, next
ss,” Darius said, and I looked up at him.
“Can I go back to my room? I don’t feel well,”
“ss now, or you won’t see Kalen after dinner,” Darius snapped at me and hauled my ass out of my
seat. Seeing Kalen was the only thing I looked forward to besides seeing Ryze. I grip the desk as a
wave of dizziness washed over me, and Darius watched me stagger to the front of the ss before
turning his gaze away. “Asshole,” I muttered under my breath.
“Want to repeat that?” Darius growled behind me, and I looked back at him. He red at me and went
to get up. I quickly rushed out the door. Making my way down the
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corridors, I felt my stomach heave up my throat and ran to the closest trash can before throwing up in
it. No, please, I thought as I lost my breakfast. I wiped my mouth on the back o fmy hand and
staggered to the bathroom. I drank from the tap, knowing that I would stumble across someone if I went
to the mess hall.
I wet my face, trying to cool myself down after retching. Looking in the oval-shaped mirror above the
sink my face was pale, and my eyes sunken in. My stomach growled hungrily, and I drank some more
water, trying to fill it enough to stop the loud gurgling noises it was making. Wetting the back of m y
neck, I leaned on the basin, trying to force myself to head to the next ss.
My tablet Bing’s, and I pull it out. My pen pal remembered me, and we had been talking for thest few
days. I excitedly opened up the chat.
‘How’s your day?’ They asked.
I looked at the mirror. Shit! I thought, looking at my hollow cheeks. I had lost so much weight with the
training and not eating I was starting to look gaunt in the face. I shake my head, wondering how it was
possible in such a brief period.
‘Crap, I feel sick and have to go to ss,’ I replied as I made m y way out.
They responded with a sad emoji.
‘How’s yours?’ I asked. ‘Boring, locked away as usual,’ they replied. My pen pal had told me they too
were having mate drama, that he didn’t get out much.
‘Which ss are you in next?’ they asked.
‘Stupid training one with Tobias,’
‘You really don’t like that guy, huh?’ I chuckle. I had told him all about my asshole mates and the nasty
shit they did. Well, except Kalen.
‘You wouldn’t either if he used you like his personal juice box daily, and you were starving after only
getting one meal or half a meal a day,’ I replied.
‘Your mates starve you?’ He replied, and I sighed.
‘No, but I’m too scared to go to dinner or lunch in the mess hall because of the other men. Last time
one put my hand in a boiling pot,’ I replied.
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They didn’t reply straight away, so I continued to the obstacle course and walked over to where they
were stretching.
‘Who did?’ came their reply.
‘Some dick called Deacon, they will get bored eventually and leave me alone,’ I replied when my tablet
was plucked from m y grip. I looked up to see Tobias ring at me.
“No distractions. Now get out there,” he snapped at me. I went to ask if I could sit out, but he growled,
so I dropped my head and started running. My stomach was sloshing from all the water I drank, making
me regret that stupid idea to curb m y hunger. Lesson learned.
The demons were shoving and pushing as I tried to remain on the track. Running out of breath
because bile rushed up to my throat, I pulled off to the side and threw up again. Zac sniggers as he
passes me and nudges me.
“Can’t hack it, Aleera,” he taunts before I throw up again.
“Aleera!” Tobias calls, and I look up, hoping he would say I could go inside. He points to the track, and
my shoulders sag a s I turn around. My surroundings spun, and I found the heat made it increasingly
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The ground felt like it was moving under my feet, and I felt delirious as I stumbled my way back onto
the track.
My harsh,bored breathing could be heard in my head along with my heartbeat when I felt my eyes
roll into the back of my head. I knew I hit the ground, but I felt nothing, no pain, nothing as darkness
swallowed me. I fainted.
Someone was tapping my face, my ears were ringing, and I could hear a faint voice calling my name.
The sun shone through the backs of my eyelids, and I blinked dazed, only to look into the eyes of
Tobias.
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He turns my face from side to side before prying my eyelids open when I close them. “Yep, you’re done
for the day,” he said, scooping me up in his arms. I kept going in and out of consciousness, but I was
soon inside the air-conditioning, making me shiver after being outside in the blistering sun.
“What happened?” I heard Darius ask, and I blinked open my eyes to find I was back in my room.
Darius shuts the door while Tobias ces me on the bed. I could hear them talking but paid no
attention.
“Heatstroke, maybe?” Tobias says.
“Sheined about being sick in ss. She looked pale then too,”
“So you forced her to my ss,” Tobias snapped when I felt his teeth sink into my wrist. I groaned,
hoping he wouldn’t take much. I was already light-headed enough. “Anything?” Darius asks.
“No, not poison, but her iron is a little low. I had noticed that over thest few days,” Darius sighed
when the door opened again.
“Lycus said she fainted,” I heard Kalen’s voice. I couldn’t remember seeing Lycus, but then again, I
don’t remember the walk to the room.
“Where is he?”
“Making her something to eat,” Kalen answers before the bed dips beside me. He brushed my hair from
my face and leaned over me. “You okay?” He asked, and I shook my head. My stomach was beginning
to cramp like I had a stitch.
The door opened again, and I knew it was Lycus this time. “I need to get to ss, but I will see you
tonight after dinner,”
Tobias says, making me wonder where he was going. “Oh, almost forgot her tablet,”
“Why do you have it?”
“Confiscated it. She was using it when she came out,” Tobias said, and I heard the door close as he
left.
“You two right with her?” (This Novel daily new chapters provide it
“Fine,” Lycus says, sounding angry.
“What’s wrong with you?” Darius asked him.
“Later, not now,” I looked at Lycus as he sat beside me before Kalen helped me sit up. I leaned heavily
against him, and Lycus ced a te of tomato and cheese sandwiches on myp cut into triangles.
“Eat it will make you feel better,” Lycus says, pressing one to my lips. Kalen looks at him funny before
he grabs my tablet at my feet. I try to reach for it, not wanting him to read my messages, but he ces
it on charge.
“Eat!” Lycus snaps, pressing the sandwich triangle to my lips again. I take a bite, and he seems to rx
but insists on feeding me like a child. I noticed Kalen watching him, just as confused as I was about his
strange behavior. When he presses a third against my lips, I shake my head. Hoping Lycus would
leave it so I could sneak down to feed my Phoenix tonight. He had started to heal and had some
feathersing back. His wing was still injured, but Ryze was on the mend.