Tasting Darkness

Chapter 139

Read Taming Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 3 Chapter 14 – Darius POV

He darted in without hesitation, but there was something different, and started tearing them limb from limb. Yet it became apparent that we missed something because these new Power hunters. Dead by his claws and teeth, missing limbs and blood drenching him were something more than power hunters. Because one by one they started rebuilding themselves, putting themselves back together. Limbs stitching back together. Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, they put the part of themselves back together again.

 

“What the f*ck!” I curse in disbelief. Lycus stops and shakes his head with a growl like he can’t believe what he is witnessing. The hunters form a circle around him closing him in and the power that flowed out of them, caged him until his body is pressed close to the ground, or he’ll be burned by a dome of fire. He snarls, but there’s nothing he can do.

Kalen grunts as yet another attack is driven through his body. “I’m tired of this,” she grabs him by his chain and flings his body off the side of the roof. He free-falls and the chain jerks taunt as he reaches the end of it and the b*tch tries to hang him.

My powers fly through the air, they crackle around me as I fight my way through the hunters. Kalen’s limp form dangles above me, but I don’t reach for him. I jump high into the air and land beside her. She’s startled and drops the chain’s end, letting Kalen’s body crash to the hard ground below.

I waste no time in stalking forward. There’s nothing she can do to stop me.

“Take one more step, and I’ll blow your mate’s head off,” she sneers at me, holding up a small red button. “That chain is special in more ways than one.”

doubt he could take, but having his head removed? That was a bit more extreme. That would require more than a little stitching

a long jagged knife in her hands. Its wicked edge glints with

cut after cut. Lycus is burning alive, the fire is too much for him

but my mate’s lives were at stake. I came here willing to die, but I am not willing

she brings the knife to my neck, running the tip from one side to the other with the barest of pressures and creating a thin ribbon of blood. I close my eyes, reading myself for death, praying mine will be all she decides to

two, three I take in waiting for it. However, a high pitched screech steals our attention and my eyes open and we both look up as a phoenix desperately throws its body into the shield,

I wish I could throw her off this building, but I can’t risk their death. She returns the knife to the place she had put it before and smiled against the

i deserve to be embraced by its flames and for my soul to be devoured. I close my eyes and let my body relax as I wait

to come when the Phoenix hits the shield again, followed by another. ” That’s impossible,” she murmurs, and I hear her stagger back. My eyes snap open to see

the largest as the Phoenixes torpedo the shield, like a meteor shower,

feel her burning anger, making me look to the center of the circling Phoenixes as they dropped one by one, bringing assaults down on the shield imprisoning us. Aleera hovered

it in flames. I lose sight of her, but not for long because her fury turns white-hot, and she suddenly burned brighter

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