Tasting Darkness By Jessicahall Chapter 69
Chapter 69
Darius POV
My mind was spinning as I held the hellhounds off. One stupid mistake nearly cost her life; I never
should have taken her out of the castle grounds without the others. I was most shocked that she could
have drained me of my power and portaled out and ran, leaving me, but she stayed to protect me. I
knew something was off about her, but never in my wildest dreams did I think she was harmony Fae
and elemental on top of that; not for one second did I ever entertain that idea, she shouldn’t exist.
Aleera would be a lethal weapon if appropriately trained.
Why would she keep it from us? We would have protected her. However, it made so much sense now
why her parents tried to kill her.
“Aleera, stay with me, love,” I called to her when my magic faltered when I was hit with a st of air. My
eyes scanned my surroundings as my me wall suddenly encased us, and I barely covered her body
with mine in time to stop the mes from burning her before reinforcing them stronger.
Come on Tobias, where are you? I thought just before I felt the shudder of him close; Lycus’s presence
also felt near as my mark stopped burning, Kalen not here, and I wondered what they did to subdue
him to force him to remain home. I knew that man would walk through fire for her. We all would.
Whimpers and shouting could be heard all around, yet the shudder against m y shield as they bounced
off it told me if I dropped it, they would get to her.
“Tobias behind you,” Lycus called out before I heard him grunt. Panic made me drop the shield to find
him fighting with the man from town, the same man that walked out in front of my car. The vicious snarl
as the hellhound lunged at us, ripping me back to my surroundings and the fact I dropped the shield.
My body covers Aleera’s head to shield her, expecting its teeth ws any second before hearing the
fierce sounds of flesh being ripped from bone and mighty furious roar.
Lycus’ giant wolf gripped its neck in his powerful jaws, ripping the hellhound back at thest second
and mming it on the ground before he shook his head, ripping out the beast’s throat and spraying
himself and me in blood. Looking around, I noticed he and Tobias had taken out the others, and the
only person left was the man Tobias was fighting. Fool to try to sneak up o n him would have been
smarter if he ran. Tobias plunged his hand in through the man’s chest, his entire body became engulfed
in mes. His screams drilled my ears.
“Idiot,” I mutter, thinking his puny air magic was any match for a fire user. Tobias rips his hand out,
leaving his burning corpse to fall at his feet. The hellhounds put up more of a fight.
Tobias runs over to us. Lycus’ big ck wolfes over, sniffing and licking my face. I push his head
away, lifting my body from Aleera’s unconscious one. He sniffs her, licks her cheek, and nudges her
before whimpering when she doesn’t wake. Tobiases over and runs his hand down Lycus’s back.
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“She will be okay. Let us get her home,” Tobias tells him, and Lycus whines while I bundle her up in my
arms. Blood trickled from her nose, ears, and eyes from using my magic. The amount she used told me
she had never harnessed that much at once. Being an elemental, magic shoulde easy to her
unless she hadn’t used it. Tobias walks over to the car on its roof, and Lycus shifts back, going to give
him a hand as he pushes it back on its wheels. The car banged and bounced as it was turned back
upright.
“She has definitely seen better days,” Tobias mutters at my ruined car before he pushes it off t o the
side of the road. Lycus retrieves the stuff from the boot and our belongings from the vehicle.
“Yep, need another one now,” Lycus hums.
“The car is receable. Lives aren’t,” I tell them, and they nod before Lycus flicks his fingers a tit,
setting it alight. Tobias opens a portal, and I groan as I stagger toward it with Aleera in my arms. Tobias
comes to take her from me, but I pull away, not willing to let her go, and he looks at me questionably.
“She saved my life. She could have run, but she didn’t,”
“Goes to show how wrong you were about our girl then,” Tobias chuckles.
“We were all wrong; she is an elemental harmony fae,” I tell him, and the shock on his face is apparent;
Lycus chuckles. “Yeah, right, there is no harmony left, and what would be the chances of finding a
harmony that was also an elemental, impossible?” I stare at him, and he looks between Tobias, who
nods to him that I was telling the truth.
“What?” Lycus stutters.
“Aleera is an elemental harmony Fae. She took my magic and protected me while I was out. I woke up
to her above me holding them off,” I tell him.
“Fuck!” Lycus curses, and so does Tobias. This means the war we were fighting to protect had more
meaning; now, the stakes were higher. Anyone finds out about her. She would have an entire world of
Fae after her. It was bad enough that I was stuck for years going through tests t o recreate the
elemental status until I said no more. Not like they could force me when I could melt their insides with a
click of my fingers. However, Aleera, no amount of fear for what she
could do would stop the council froming for her.
Stepping through the portal, I find Kalen shackled by Lycus’s magic. If looks could kill, we would all be
dead for forcing him to remain behind. Tobias flicks his fingers in his direction as we step into our room,
releasing him from the hold of his magic. The moment he is released, h
e stands up and punches Tobias.
“How fucking dare you,” Kalen snarled at him while Tobias rubbed his jaw before grabbing his throat.
Lycus flops on the bed, and I turn my attention back to Tobias, who presses his lips against Kalen’s. “I
will let that slide, but don’t push me, Kalen; it’s unsafe for you,” Tobias growls at him before tugging him
closer and embracing him. Kalen’s eyes went to Aleera in m y arms as he tried to escape Tobias, who
sighed, releasing him so he could rush over to take her from my arms.
He hugs her close, burying his face in her neck andying her beside Lycus. “You gave her magic?” he
asks, and I knew he was assessing her aura when a thought urred to me.
“You knew she was a harmony-Fae, didn’t you?” Kalen growls but nods. “I noticed earlier when one of
the phoenix’s power shared to her,” he says it so matter-of-factly like he hadn’t kept it from us.
“You didn’t think to say something?”
“Not my ce to say; I figured she would tell you when she trusted you,” Kalen said, leaning down and
kissing her before adjusting her on the bed, so her head was resting on Lycus’s shoulder
“She needs magic, Darius. She won’t run,” Kalen says, looking over at me.
“I know, she could have, but she didn’t,” I tell him, lifting my shirt to find a piece of the door trim stabbed
into my side. Tobias hisses as I groan, ripping the piece of metal out before his hand was covering it as
he tried to heal me.
“Save it, I will heal on my own, save it for Aleera,” I groaned, sitting down holding my hand to the side
to stem the bleeding as I waited for it to heal. We all kind of sat around in silence, everyone shocked at
what we learned when Ryze flew in the window and shrieked as hended on the windowsill.