Tasting Darkness
Chapter 76

My heart skips a beat at his words, and Darius’s l!ps go to their marks on my neck, making me m**n when Kalen grips my hair. He tugged my head back before his l!ps covered mine. I answered his k!ss, turning in Darius’s arms to wrap mine around Kalen’s neck, pulling him closer when I felt him grab me. Darius transferred me over to him. Kalen pushes me against the shower wall, and my b***d sings in my veins at his roughness.

My legs wrap around his waist securely, and the others move around, showering. I thought Darius would be angry that I wanted Kalen, yet they all seemed to accept it like they knew before I even did. Kalen’s tongue moves between my l!ps, assaulting my mouth, and I gasp into his mouth. Any reservations I had left now, I am safely in Kalen’s hands.

I knew he wouldn’t hurt me. I knew none of them would, but I felt more relaxed with Kalen. Kalen sucks my bottom l!p into his mouth, his teeth tugging on it, and the bond flares making me mewl. The noises

leaving me as the bond thrived grew more robust and were embarrassing. However, they didn’t mind or mention my sudden insatiable hunger for them and their magic. The urge to take his power and recharge him was overwhelming, and my body tingled as I ran my fingers up the back of his neck and into his hair. Kalen shudders before I feel the sparks zap my fingertips.

My bond siphoning his magic and absorbing it before feeding it back to him stronger, the cycle relentless, and the more I did, the more desire coursed through me. It was almost maddening, the urges rolling over me entirely out of my control as I moved my h!ps against him. His hard c**k pressed against my wet p*ssy. Any fear I may have extinguished, and I felt the moment carnal instinct washed over me completely.

My vision changed, and my entire body tingled as I blinked. Kalen gasped, pulling away from me. My reflection in his eyes made me gasp when I saw my eyes glowing and turning completely white, radiating back at me like a raging storm.

The buzz under my skin intensified, a feral, hungered noise leaving me as my l!ps crashed against him hungrily. Any control I had was now lost and forgotten as I gave in to the feeling. Kalen chuckles against my l!ps as I mauled him.” Not here, Kalen. Take her to the room. She isn’t losing her v!rg!n!ty on a shower wall.

”Lycus tells him; however, I couldn’t care less where I lost anything right now. All I could focus on was the feeling the bond was drowning me in, l**t coursing through me rapidly and burning me up like wildfire as I attacked him. Tasting the saltiness of his skin, anything I could get my mouth on.

I could feel him moving, felt the cold draft rush over me as he stepped out of the shower with me in his arms, yet my skin was boiling hot, my skin itching with a foreign need. Their hands touching and drying me made me m**n. Kalen chuckles as my tongue assaults his l!ps, chin, and neck.

He doesn’t stop me or pull away, his magic bleeding in and out of me. So much power was being transferred that it was ridiculous. Arousing and electrifying at the same time. I understood why it was called shredding, like burning off energy rapidly, only to absorb more and burn it off by giving it back.

Each time his power grew stronger, the more I pulled on it before giving it back to him. I struggled with focus, recognition, desire, and instinct taking over, and my back hit the mattress.

Kalen tried to untangle himself from me, but my fingers refused to let go of his shoulders, and I growled like an animal when he tried. My legs wrapped around him, securely holding him in place against me.

Yet his worry bled through the bond. However, my bond was uncaring, only hungry for him and his power. When hot hands gripped the sides of my face. My head is pulled back, and I am pushed flat against the mattress; I see Darius’s demonic eyes staring down at me.

A seductive smile on his l!ps. ”Calm. Slow Aleera, you will regret it in the morning,” his words sounded reasonable, yet instinct refused to let go of me as I clutched Kalen closer.

Darius’s eyes glow, burning brightly before I feel him turn his magic on me, forcing me to relax, and my legs unravel from around Kalen’s waist falling open on the bed, and my fingers let him go. Kalen sighs, but Darius’s magic almost had me sedated, and the fog washing over me and clouding me lifts slightly, making me blink up at him.“

Darius smirks. ” That’s it, calm Aleera, Darius murmurs before leaning down and k!ssing me softly, his tongue gently brushing mine, his hands on the sides of my face slid down to my neck, his thumbs brushing along my jaw, warm and making my skin tingle. ”Maybe one of you should?” Kalen whispers, and Darius pulls his l!ps from mine to look at him.

My breathing was harsh as the need for Kalen’s power overwhelmed me. It was like the bond craved him, yet subconsciously, it went with who I would have chosen first. It was an odd feeling. Darius lets me go, and the moment he does, I attack Kalen; the bond overwhelming me.

Kalen’s nervousness hits me like a slap in the face when Darius grabs me, pulling me back down, his magic moving through me again and sedating me. Yet still, my h!ps rocked against Kalen, my legs locked around his waist. ”Her bond wants you, Kalen,” Tobias tells him, but the fire coursing through me became painful the more he denied me, I g*****d as my arousal spilled out, coating my thighs. But Kalen just stared down at me, and I mewl. Kalen bites his l!p, looking down at me.

I wondered why he was denying me; the bond screaming out painfully for him, but he just stared down at me, and the feeling through the bond was almost fear. ”Maybe Tobias should,” Kalen murmurs. Tears prick my eyes at Kalen’s words.

The bond recoiled in my chest, making me cry out. My back arched at his rejection as pain rippled through me when Lycus moved onto the bed beside me, his magic flooding into me as his hand moved across my stomach, the bond relaxing under his touch, and I fell back against the bed. Humiliated at the way my bond was reacting, tears stung my eyes. I couldn’t even speak, incapable of it. Everything became based on instinct and the feeling of my bond tugging on theirs.

It became clear why everyone always said you needed your mates when shredding. It was agony and uncontrollable; I was at the mercy of my bond, inhibited by instincts I was not used to. ”Calm, he is scared. Aleera. He isn’t rejecting you,” Lycus murmured before leaning over and k!ssing me softly and sucking on my bottom l!p.

He nibbles on it before pulling away from me and smiling back at me. Darius‘ hands still cupping my face warm up more, his magic bleeding through me, trying to calm my frantic bond, and I see Tobias k!ss Kalen’s shoulder. Kalen turns his head to face him, to look at him, and Tobias k!sses him.

The sight made my bond flare stronger, saddened Kalen would give in to Tobias, but not me. ”I know you want him. He will give your bond what it wants. Kalen has never been with a woman. Just give him a second,“ Darius purrs, leaning down and k!ssing me softly.

His words startled me for a second, and when he pulled away, Kalen was staring down at me with a worried look on his face and his cheeks heat. His embarrassment hits me, and my bond calms, reacting to him. Wanting to comfort him and tell him it was ok, which it was, I was a v!rg!n, for god sake, and not many were at the age of twenty – four, especially a damn keeper.

A purr escapes me, a noise I wasn’t aware I could make, my bond rushing out like an aura and reassuring him. Kalen sighs, closing his eyes and tipping his head back. My body felt foreign doing things I had no control over. The urge to comfort my mate became overwhelming, and I felt the tension start to leave him.

” What are you worried about? Hurting her? I can assure you right now you won’t, not while she is like this, ” Tobias chuckles, nodding toward me writhing on the bed. Kalen looks down at me, and his face takes on a darkened expression, his eyes flickering and the room chilled slightly, reacting to his mood.

And for the first time, I got glimmers of his aura. I had never seen one, and I knew it was because I was filled with his magic. However, Kalen’s was black as coal, and fractures like shattered glass crackled within it.

Darkness, his aura, was tainted by the darkness that sometimes took over him, showing how close he lived to the edge of this world and death, a limbo between the light and darkness that swirled within him. ” Yes, but mostly what she will see,” Kalen says, and Lycus cups Kalen’s cheek with his hand. His thumb smoothed under his eye.