Tasting Darkness

Chapter 142

Read Taming Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 3 Chapter 17 – Aleera POV

Darius’ screams of despair broke my heart as he was forced out of the pentagram, his body hurled through the air to the safety of my portal. I felt like I could break down in tears, yet was unsure if it was because of the relief that they were safe, or despair for possibly losing them.

 

The portal shut, just as the last tower was charged, and I was smashed with electricity. It traveled through my body with such force, I didn’t have enough time to register if I felt any pain.

My knees went out from under me, hitting the hard ground along with my hands as I was propelled forward. I tried to get up, to fight

the force that held me down, but each attempt ended with the same scenario – a helpless dead end. I was wasting the little energy left in my body.

The energy emanating from the towers slowly drained me of power, immobilizing it. I gritted my teeth and ignored the pain that slowly spread though my body as I lifted my head. My eyes found her within a second, and I made it a point to glare at my mother.

I forced all hatred I had for that woman into my gaze, but even that didn’t feel like enough. There was no living person I could ever hate more than her. And yet, as unfazed as ever, she casually strolled down the stairs toward me.

Her feet stopped next to my face. I expected a blow, a show of power and superiority, but instead, she circled around me. “Your father’s death won’t be in vain.”

An amused giggle escaped me at her words. “You have no idea what you have just done,” I growled at her.

where you are wrong. I know exactly what I am doing, Aleera. Who do you think came up with the plague?” she murmured, crouching beside me. I didn’t want her so near me, if anything,

forcing me to meet her gaze. As my eyes looked into hers, I couldn’t believe this

part in her had died a long time ago. Buried so deep inside the leftover shell of

but a monster. A woman

she had lost and robbed me of. A wicked smile spread across her

breaking the skin and drawing blood. “I did,” she

had to be more to the plague than I knew, a part of me refused to think someone close to me had a hand at its creation. My

grip. “Xandrius took everything from

don’t understand,” she murmurs,

and opened a portal before nodding to someone. Hands suddenly grabbed me

with magic I knew was hers. My wings folded in and disappeared under

exposed, naked, and vulnerable. The one thing I never wanted to feel just washed over

I am finished, this world will fall to the true Queen. Our species may be extinct,

back to the rightful hands

her. For how long had she been feeding herself all

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