Tasting Darkness

Read Taming Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 3 Chapter 5 – My heart stutters in the real world as I watch Darius father through his eyes. A tiny six-year `old boy, he clenches his jaw, steels his resolve and lift his chin, stepping through the portal back to his waiting father. The moment he does, his father grabbed him.

“What have you done?” Xandrius growls at his son, shutting the portal.

“He’s useless to you now, dad,” Darius says, his gaze ice-cold. His father snarls, backhands him, making him hit the ground. He lands on the floor on his stomach. He wipes his bleeding lip and rolls over, sitting up, just as his door burst open. Darius cold gaze moves to the door to see his mother.

“No!” she snaps at Xandrius as he starts undoing his belt. “Get out, Lilith!” he yells at his wife. She shakes her head, this was nothing new for Darius, his mother always fought for him, even though it just got her hurt.

Darius gets up, his mother attacking his father just as he is whipped with the belt. The blows are repeatedly rained down, his mother taking a good amount of them trying to protect him. His father was a monster, yet when his mother gets slashed across the face with the belt, he had enough.

Darius roars, his fist hitting the ground. The floorboards ripple, tearing from the floor, some even bursting and splintering to small shards. His father’s eyes bleed black, and his mother is tossed from the room and locked out. His father, sealing them into the room.

Darius backs away from the demonic-king, gone was any semblance of his father and only the man the world feared. Splinters and wood cut and carve at his skin, as he tries to hide from his father when his back suddenly hits the wall.”

His father smirks. “You have done it now, son,’ he tells him. Darius shakes his head. If bravery had a face, it was this six-year-old boy, no way anyone would face the beast that stood over him. Evil incarnate, yet he did as a small boy.

“No, father. You have, I won’t be little forever, you best remember that because I will remember this day,” His father is shocked by his son’s words, yet he wasn’t about to let his son challenge him, and he didn’t only this time Darius never peeped a cry, not a sound left him as his father beat him with the buckle of his belt until he fell unconscious.

The memory warps and twists, disintegrates and moves away as I am tossed forward through his memories. One thing I was beginning to learn though as the new memory emerged was the reason why he believed his mates would hate him.

especially when

Darius seemed different, colder, indifferent, numb from outside influence, dead inside.

father raises his hand to silence him, not even bothering to look up from

price of going against me,” “I swear I didn’t know she was your wife, I..

to observe the man talking

tilts his head

exactly what you were doing. You knew exactly who she was, you thought you could one up

to, I was testing you, and you failed,”

chair. He scuttles back on his hands and

You can have my mate, make up for what I almost did. She will do it.. She needs me-” Xandrius laughs. “I don’t want your mate, I don’t want some whore that `has been passed around the council more times than I can

only been with me, Xandrius laughs, like what Porter just said was hilarious.

for a bounty hunter,” Xandrius laughs harder. Tears spring in his eyes from his laughter,

He motions for Darius to step forward, and Darius stepped forward, not wanting to show him what he pulled from Lycus’s mother’s head earlier when she was brought in

fucked your way to

know was that his mate had done all those things, to save him from going to prison,

wasn’t allowed to show those parts to him, just the acts themselves, which made him sick that the woman was