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Read Tasting Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 2 Chapter 24 – Aleera
They killed him. They killed my mate, and I returned to my senses as I hit the ground. I had lost all
control, driven by anger so hot I thought I wouldbust. “Aleera,” Lycus murmured as I tried to clear
my vision, my anger dying down and reced with sadness and a hollowness that would never be filled;
I was dead inside. And I felt my magic crashing as I did, seeping back into the earth, yet my magic was
recharged, energized, yet ice cold in my veins when I heard Ryze screech. The fighting had stopped,
and the bodies of our men and the power huntersy on the ground. Few had survived, yet all I Bl
Tasting Darkness Chapter 24 could think was Kalen was gone.
That cold, sinking feeling made my bones ache as it settled over me. The weight was heavy, and I was
drowning in despair. Is this what they felt every time he killed himself? No wonder they hated me. I
couldn’t live with this feeling, yet as my eyes searched for his body amongst the others, all I could see
was carnage. “Kalen.” I whimpered when Ryze screeched again, and I looked for him. Only to see what
was left of my phoenixes huddled where his bodyy. My eyes widen, and I choke and sputter at what I
see.
He was being eaten by them. They were eating him. I screamed at them, getting to my feet and running
toward them.
1 “No, stop! Stop,” I sobbed, racing to stop 66 them from mutting him more. Lycus and Tobias were
also running toward him too.
I lift my hand and st them with my magic, only for it to hit some invisible barrier and be deflected back
at us, knocking us all on our asses.
Fury courses through me that they would betray me like this, and I sit with a crying scream when I see
one phoenix copse. Then another.Còntens bel0ngs to N?(v)elDr/a/ma.Org
The huddled birds, ruffling feathers and chirping screeches, fluttered over him, and all I could see were
his legs as they covered him before dropping one by one and bursting into mes around him when the
one on top squawked loudly and erupted into mes.
My heart became pulverized as he burned along with them. Or so I thought. My infinity mark burns,
erupting with power, and warmth floods through me, and I gasp, looking down at my mark to see his
name shing like an SOS. Blink.
less Chapter 24 Blink. Blink before searing and burning brighter before it stopspletely. Yet gone was
the grey, and his name was etched in a bright blue like the others. I stared at the marking and clutched
my wrist, only to see Tobias and Lycus doing the same when magic erupted in my chest and made my
heart swell. Kalen’s magic.
Kalen’s bond. I gasped, looking toward where his bodyy, only for him to jolt upright with a harsh
wheeze as he sucked in air. Ash and X soot covering every inch of him cascades off him, his clothes
gone
“Kalen?” I murmured, and he breathed as if he had been holding his breath for a long time, trying to
catch his breath.
He clutches his chest, then his throat.” Kalen!” Lycus shrieked a sob, and he turned his head to look at
us. They weren’t eating him; they were resurrecting him. With a cry, we were all on our feet, racing
toward him when he looked down at his naked legs covered in soot and ash.
I crash against him first and clutch him tight, immense relief washing through me when he hugs me back.
I kiss his face, every part of it, when he makes a strangled noise, making me realize my relief of him
being alive was now strangling him when he jumps.
Poc X I pulled back, and I look at him, seeing Darius and the other racing toward us. They were meters
away from him when he reached between our bodies, and I moved off him, thinking I was hurting his
legs.
Yet Kalen cupped something in his hands before looking up at me. And all I could do was blink. He
throws his hand out, and our mates slow, stopping as he looks around himself. I looked down at the
ground, wondering what was wrong, fearing he was leaving us again, when I saw something move in his
hands.
The ashes rippled, and a featherless body shook off the soot and ash. Long tongue slivers out, and I look
to the ground, the ash rippling as the phoenixese back from the ashes in tiny featherless bodies.
4×6 “Phoenix chicks,” I whisper, and he chokes a sob looking at me.
I hold my hands out as he drops the featherless little body in my hands as the phoenixes that saved him
move the soot and pop their heads out, giving a chirp. Ryze flies over and perches heavily on my
shoulder, his tongue sneaking out and licking the chick’s face.
I giggle as the force of his tongue makes the squirming chick fall on its side in my palms. “They saved
me,” Kalen murmurs as the others fall on the ground beside us, careful not to crush the phoenixes
hatching from the ashes.
Lycus clutches Kalen’s face and kisses him, a whimper leaving him as he squeezes him. Kalenughs,
pushing away from him to scoop up another chick when Darius and Tobias grab him and crush Kalen in
their embrace. “The chicks! the chicks!” Kalen shrieks.
He was more worried about the birds than the fact he had just died. Darius mutters something at him that
sounds vaguely like a curse. “Yes, watch the chicks!” Lycus snarls, shoving Tobias back and scooping
one up.
“You hate Phoenixes!” Tobias snarled at him. “Who said I hate them? I love phoenixes! Lycus snarls at
Tobias, cuddling the tiny bird. 11 “Such pretty little things,” Lycus coos, smooching its face when the bird
screeches at his mauling lips and bites him, making Lycus hiss. “Stupid bird,” he growled.
“I thought you said you loved them?” 2002. “I thought you said you loved them?” Dariusughs. “I do!
Just not that one. It has your temperament,” Lycus says, thrusting the bird at him. Darius chuckles, taking
the featherless thing while I look around at what became a battlefield.
Some of Darius ‘ recruits survived but only around twenty or so, and they were scooping up fallen baby
phoenixes as they made their way over to us. So much death.
2 “Aleera?” Kalen says, drawing my attention back to him only to see his hand reaching toward my face,
yet his hand doesn’t touch me but goes past my face behind me. “You have wings,” Kalen murmurs, and
I gasp when I feel his fingertips brush what felt like a weird tickle on my back. As I turned my head, I
realized he was right. I had wings!
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