Tasting Darkness

Chapter 133

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The fumes were h*rrendous, and the liquid bubbled like a potion some film directors portray only in sci-fi movies.

 

I kept watching Darius as he started crushing up the devil’s bane. My eyebrows furrowed in silent question. What was he planning to do with that thing? It was extremely toxic to demons, so getting a hold of that much of it had to be challenging. Was he trying to kill his own father?

Darius added sulfur and a heap of other, even more dangerous, ingredients. I couldn’t stop wondering where, from who, and how the heck he got his hands on such poisons.

It was such a wide variety of dangerous and toxic that I knew Darius had to be aware of the things he had there. It couldn’t be a coincidence. I refused to believe or even think that he had no idea what those things were.

Besides, the book he had opened looked like it could have been at least a hundred years old. It wasn’t the plain old recipe book, either. And I knew he wasn’t baking a cake.

My heart thundered against my ribcage as scenarios ran through my mind. I knew he wasn’t trying to hurt himself, or at least I hoped so, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t feeling like losing my mind while watching.

I knew he hadn’t done anything deadly as Darius still was alive, outside these memories, he was alive. That’s all that  mattered.

A movement caught my attention as I involuntarily held my breath. When Darius was done mixing up the dangerous plants, he took off the mask he had on. I gasped at the view of him choking on the fumes.

then, out of nowhere, he does something

left without missing a beat! No second guessing, not a thought before he did it, just chugged it down as if it tasted

room disappeared, there were no surroundings for me

was black. For ages, I listened to the harsh thumping of his heart in his ears. The sound was awful, painful even, and then, it abruptly stopped. Not a thump, not a sound or movement. I couldn’t believe I witnessed this, I couldn’t believe he did

plagues were created from his blood. Darius killed off any chance of anyone ever

took had to be too high, and soon after Darius killed himself, he came to realize the actual price. When he came back, he finally understood that with dying he not only killed himself but

what was left of him was so dark, so  empty, and so wild in its roots, Darius had to face the new

that part of him, Darius killed off what little control he used to have over his incubus magic. Whatever he thought he used to have – it was lost

harder than he knew was possible. The very thing he tried to hide and control now was

 anymore, every moment of his life,

constantly needed to fight against the monster inside him

thought Darius might get some reprieve from

two days later that Molly died. The pain, even if only a memory, that surged through him was indescribable.

mother begged Darius to save her, begged Darius to bring her back. And he tried, oh god, how he tried, but nothing worked. Darius couldn’t do anything to save his sister, to save the one person who was his true

weapon to control him far too many times, Darius still refused to let

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