Tasting Darkness

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Hours passed. I spent most of the day sleeping on the cold concrete floor. I was too lethargic to move. My ass went numb hours ago, my legs were asleep, and they had pins and needles, yet moving them felt like too much effort. My teeth chattered as my temperature plummeted, and the day turned into night. The coldness of night seeped into my bones, making them ache worse. I was asleep when I heard the steel door open.

“And you are back. Is it morning already?” I murmured. Hearing the cell door open, I instantly knew something was wrong as he never once ever came into the cell. My eyes flew open to see Darius standing in front of me.

“Oh, shit!” I curse under my breath.

“Oh shit is right, why aren’t you eating?”

“Not hungry,” I tell him, and my traitorous stomach growls at the mention of food. His eyes flickered, and he glared down at me. He walked over to me, and I  had to fight the urge to shrivel into a ball.

Darius growls before reaching down and grabbing my hair. He jerks my head back painfully, but I can’t even fight to loosen his grip. My entire body felt like a dead weight. He sneers at me, looking me over.

“Fucking disgusting,” He says, letting me go and shoving me against the brick wall. My back hits the wall so hard it knocks the air from my lungs in one short wheeze.

don’t even want me, so why keep me?”

will force-feed you,” He says, kicking the plate towards me. It resembled toast, only white with no color, but

three seconds, or I will

at him—a big mistake when his foot came down my shin. I screamed. The sound echoed off the walls and made my ears ring

leg, his foot crushing it still as I panted. He counts slowly again,

face is expressionless, like hurting me meant nothing to him. I suppose it

weak to stop him, and my magic was all but gone; I highly doubt

my aching leg, only for him to stomp on my hand. I hear the sickening crack of my three middle fingers. Bile rises in my throat before I throw up the emptiness of my stomach. Acid burned my throat while I gasped for air as bile spilled from my lips onto

removes his foot off my hand, and I clutch it to my chest when the door opens behind him. My entire body trembles and Darius steps away from me, looking toward whoever entered. The pressure on my leg leaves, but it

leg in horror at what he had done. The pain receded, and I knew I was in shock. I welcomed the shock, anything to replace the pain, but I knew it would wear off any minute, and

him, but I couldn’t see him, with Darius blocking

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