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.

noticed moving, Tobias also backed up, joining me in the center. He kept

strangeness of their behavior. She had to understand something was terribly wrong if her mother’s minions backed away

much more – this place wasn’t just dangerous, it

Then, the next moment, I finally realized what she was doing – they backed away to get to their assigned places. The minions didn’t try to save their lives, they were changing their

got us right 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 retrieved something from their

crystals at the ground, letting them shatter before using

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

I noticed the Onyx, Peridot, and Smoky Quartz Towers growing larger,

one. Crystal couldn’t do much to general Fae, but to Demonic-Fae, they could immobilize us. They could stop us

my lips as I watched each tower light up. Almost no time had passed since the crystal towers appeared

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

Aleera POV

energy. But the greed of the crystals didn’t stop there, it clutched onto the

me. I could feel that he wanted to warn me, but

shards. Each of them zapped the next as it created a barrier. A barrier I was trapped

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