Taste Of Darkness

Chapter 3 (#ue964428c-9f63-59c2-a469-19a5183bd4c7)

Chapter 4 (#u055edfed-c15b-5551-868b-ecf4b685f0b2)

Kerrick (#u94815132-0b58-5d50-81d1-41e335c8ecdc)

Chapter 5 (#u5e33a783-5c0b-515f-9ff6-04b0676efbac)

Kerrick (#u46f9f7fe-1402-50f9-a02f-412ca16ef82f)

Chapter 6 (#u91c06331-cdcc-55a8-b588-dc5fbbc7a52e)

Kerrick (#u311b75d2-7d7e-5b53-8844-766987096d06)

Chapter 7 (#ucdb5418e-00c0-510a-9f54-2066f5a63517)

Kerrick (#u3d628941-7c4e-5221-a910-5d271050fc88)

Chapter 8 (#uf5de1092-f9c3-5efa-a4c9-9b07a3594cb1)

Kerrick (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgments (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 1

Cold air caressed my back. I rolled over, muttering at Kerrick for hogging the blanket, but stopped. Something felt...odd, wrong, missing. Opening my eyes, I confirmed the emptiness next to me. Kerrick was gone.

For a moment, I stared at the dent in the pillow. Had yesterday been a dream? Had I imagined Wynn’s betrayal, Tohon trapped in a magical stasis, Kerrick’s miraculous arrival, and the rest of the insanity?

No. The events replayed in my head with vivid details. The blood, the overpowering reek of dead ufas, and Wynn’s poisoned knife striking Kerrick’s arm. Poisoned with Death Lily toxin. I’d thought I’d sucked all the deadly poison from Kerrick’s wound...but what if I hadn’t?

Icy fingers of fear wrapped around my heart. I shot to my feet and dressed in record time. Kerrick’s shirt, boots, and sword lay in a heap by the dying fire. Not good.

Out in the large main cavern, the rest of the infirmary staff stirred. I scanned the patients’ cots on the off chance Kerrick had collapsed into one. He hadn’t.

Loren added wood to the cooking hearth, poking it into a bright blaze.