Tasting Darkness

Chapter 141

Read Taming Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 3 Chapter 16 – Darius POV

Since Lycus’ hearing was far more sensitive, he shrieked. I couldn’t look away as his claws tore at his head. Tobias wailed, covering his own.

 

Although we were in the same situation, in the heat of the moment, I couldn’t understand where to go or what to do. I needed them safe, all of them, but where was I supposed to go first?

Lidia snarled, getting to her feet. She straightened her body and clutched her neck where Lycus teeth got her, a sheer look of disgust crossed her face.

Lycus’ cries of agony forced his shift, leaving him naked and clutching his head in his hands.

Lidia casually walked down the stairs, unfazed by the chaos surrounding her. Aleera stopped, seeing the strange look on her mother’s face and the way everyone suddenly backed up.

“You dare betray me,” Aleera snarled at her mother. Her lava snakes slivered behind her as she faced her mother. If we had more time on our hands, I would gladly stand aside and admire the beauty of Aleera’s newfound, destructive power as she harnessed the shadows, morphed and tamed the darkness that was now writhing through her.

Lidia’s loud, screeching laughter caught my attention. I snapped my head in her direction just as she spoke up. “You silly girl, all you had to do was come to me. None of this was necessary,” Lidia chipped back at her.

Although I didn’t know what to expect, of all the things, I was more worried about the way Lidia’s mutated monsters were backing away. “Aleera!” I called her name, my voice sent a jolt up her spine as she turned her head briefly in my direction.

up, joining me in the center. He kept clutching Kalen close to him, refusing to

the strangeness of their behavior. She had to

wasn’t just dangerous,

hands. Then, the next moment, I finally realized what she was doing – they backed away to get to their assigned places. The

where she needed us, right where she wanted us to be. We were standing in a pentagram as the ground shook. My eyes scanned our enemies as each one

tossed the crystals at the ground, letting them shatter before using their magic.

ground. I didn’t risk tearing my eyes away from everything around us, but the more I watched over

when I noticed the Onyx,

Fae, but to Demonic-Fae, they could immobilize us. They could stop us from trying to stop

watched each tower light up. Almost no time had passed since the crystal towers appeared around us, but

too. She knew, just as good as I did, what was about to happen, and my lips

Aleera POV

could feel them drawing my energy. But the greed of the crystals didn’t stop there, it clutched onto the magic of

warn me, but

gaze back on the towers rising from the shards. Each of them zapped the next as it created a barrier. A barrier I was trapped inside- inside a

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