Chapter 104
Read Tasting Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 2 Chapter 25 – “There’s just one more,” Darius murmurs as
I stagger along, trying to keep up with him as he steps through the portal after portal while putting the
wards back up. Darius wanted to infuse them with my magic this time to strengthen them. The
exhaustion I was experiencing was excruciating. The amount of power I used had exhausted me, and I
was bing queasy and light-headed. My wings were dragging across the ground behind me because
I couldn’t figure out how to make them go away. Needing a break from the heavy weight of them on my
back, I sat down on the moss-covered ground, my body felt like it had run a marathon. “One more. I
promise that is it,” Darius says, looking down at me from where I sat next to the ward he had just set.
“Just let mey down for a second,” I tell him, and he sighs loudly. “We need to get thest ward back in
ce, then you can rest.” Darius murmurs as he leans down, scooping me up.
“Watch my wings!” I shrieked when his arm moved across my back. He kisses my cheek when I gasp to
find them gone.’ Thank god,” I groan, leaning my head on his shoulder as he steps through the portal to
thest ward. 11 “I’ll do thest one,” he says, setting me down on the ground. The forest was eerie out
here after the attack. It had me wanting to return to the castle and the safety of our room, our little bubble
away XC 808 from the chaos.
With each passing minute, I could feel my magic receding, burning out, and me along with it. It was like I
had a power surge, then my body expressed it, unable to hold onto it.
Yet Darius’ power was still strong. Even Tobias’ was surging strongly through the bond, which made me
wonder how? It made me feel weak and useless as mine dissipated. Sensing my question, Darius’s eyes
softened as he nced at me over his shoulder. “You need to build up stamina.
That was a lot of power. Your body will rid you of it to protect you. Tobias and I are used to magic, have
learned to control it and preserve it” he told me and I chewed my lip. It sounded reasonable, but still, I
hated the loss and the empty feeling settling inside me. I still had magic, but nothing like I had at that
moment.
2000 “You’ll get your power back, Aleera. Until then, you have us.” Darius says, and I look up at him. “I
still have power,” I tell him. He chuckles as if he knows something I don’t making me re at him when
he opens a portal.
Darius doesn’t borate either as he grabs me, stepping through the portal back to our mates who were
still finding Phoenixes. He ces me down next to Kalen. “Is the ce secure?” Tobias asks, and Darius
nods to him just as one of the recruitses out with a few baskets to set the chicks in.
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He ces two beside us going to help the other men clean up. “I just don’t get how they got past the
wards,” I said before yawning. Lycus made a strangled noise while scooping up another chick from the
ashes.
I stared around at the devastation left behind from the attack and leaned heavily against Kalen, watching
as everyone finished up what they were doing. “It’s not your fault. I don’t think your father would be
stupid enough, and I think it has something to do with the Phoenixes.” Darius says to Lycus as he ces
another chick in the basket beside me.
They jumped and chirped inside it, trying to get out. I pet a couple of the squirming balls of skin and
beaks. “What do you mean?” I asked, confused. “Fae are useless without magic or their mates. We can’t
power share.” Darius states. “Or so most think,” Tobias says, winking at Darius, who smirks.
“Phoenixes can power share with any creature if paired. Therefore if killed they can be drained O 808
Therefore, if killed, they can be drained or absorbed. We had an entire flock here. That kind of power
would have been sensed here,” Tobias tells me.
“They probably thought they stumbled across something, not expecting to find us here,” Tobias said with
a sigh, looking guiltily at Lycus. So it’s my fault, I thought bitterly. Phoenixes hate Dark Fae and are
drawn to White Fae and, well, Harmony Fae. I was the reason they were here and the reason for so
much death.
“Yep, they would have lit this ce up like a beacon,” Darius mutters. “And once they sensed Darius’s
power, he became the prime target until you manifested, whatever it was you did,” Kalen says, pressing
his chin against my shoulder. Darius, Lycus and Tobias watched me curiously.
But if they wanted P000 answers, they were looking at the wrong person because I don’t even know
what I did or how to exin it. “So, do you think they wille back?” I asked, unable to handle their
stares. Darius’s men drop thest few chicks in the basket.
There were too many to count, with their big eyes and oversized beaks as they stared up at me hungrily.
Ryze bounces across the grass toward us, plopping a chick he had in his beak into the basket.
“Good boy,” I tell him, scratching his head feathers while yawning. “Now they know we are here. It might
be a deterrent, but it depends on how desperate they are for magic,” Tobias says, looking around at the
forest surrounding the castle grounds. I blinked, trying to keep my eyes open.
O 0000 I blinked, trying to keep my eyes open, when I felt a strange coldness settle through me, and I
groan, knowing what wasing. I had burned out, and I heard Darius chuckle, making my eyes flick to
him. A devious smirk was on his face. “Shested longer than I thought,” vaguely hear Tobiasugh.
“Rest, Aleera. You’re gonna need it for when you wake,” Kalen whispers next to my ear, his breath on my
neck makes me shiver and I feel his arms tighten around me. Then everything went ck. Yet I was too
tired to try to fight it, so instead, I sumbed, trusting they would keep watch over me while I was
absorbed by the darkness.
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