Tobias POV
We had just finished eating dinner, yet I'm craving something else. Someone else. I should never have fed on Aleera. I was only allowed to feed on Lycus and Darius, and I knew the reason for it. But her blood had been calling me from the moment I laid eyes on her. I told myself just a taste, but I knew I was done for officially when I fed on her and tried to take the shadows from her.
Lycus watches me; he had been looking at me strangely all day since he found me arguing with Aleera.
“I need to check the wards in the forest. Do you want to come?” Darius asks, getting up from his seat.
“No, I will wait here,” I say. He tilts his head to the side, examining me. I always go with him, and I know he is suspicious of me, too. They all are. My hunger is insatiable, one of the rea
