Tasting Darkness

Read Taming Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 3 Chapter 18 – Aleera

My eyes swept over my surroundings. This could not be what it looked like, she was using my memories against me. I was desperate to find a weak spot or vulnerability into what could only be an illusion. Though, the harder I looked at it, the more I got the sense it truly was my home that had been destroyed by fire, plucked out of time itself and given back to me.

There was no way I would trust that. I glanced over at her minions, they followed after her in perfect obedience, but there had to be some sort of weakness they would display for me to take advantage of.

“You can look all you want, but you’re not going to find a way back. You’ll never escape me again,” she taunted.

I kept my eyes low, avoiding hers, and tried to look like I was shaken about where I’d ended up. Think, Aleera. Maybe there would be a hidden secret inside the building I could use, since there was nothing out here. My mates had spent years searching for this place, it had to be the power hunter’s lair.

I turned my head and watched my mother as she strolled forward. taking in my surroundings she was correct there was nothing out there, I couldn’t even see the road leading in anymore, it led to the dead end street amongst the trees. The grass was overgrown, and this place gave me an eerie feeling. Even the sky looked off, as if we were in some sort of matrix, it appeared to ripple and morph like looking through a bubble at the sun, it glimmered oddly. Turning my attention back to my mother, I watched as she talked with some of the power hunters that were standing guard around this place.

aware she was just using them, yet by the devoted looks they gave her,

tone that sets me on edge, one I realized was reserved for me as a child, she spoke to them like some loving mother and I watched as she caressed the guard’s cheek, manipulating him with soft words

man she spoke to went in the direction of the surrounding forest, and suddenly disappeared, making me notice the dome-like protection surrounding this place as the

sifted through so many clues and witnesses, only to hit one dead end after another. They’d even gone as far as hiring snitches and paying them off, those most likely to know exactly where this special little piece of hell was, but

were brainwashed, the power hunters indeed did worship the ground she stood on as we approached the huge building that was once my home. All

my mates made over the years, toward finding the real location, only ended in shoving them three steps back. They’d been betrayed countless times, while my mother’s minions had lured them farther

of all the evil had buried itself. Where it

out and explained in great detail, that she was hiding in our home under concealment. Not even that would have led me to believe the truth. But seeing it

and the bitch of a woman who brought me into this hellish world. Never once in all this time had I ever dreamed of meeting her, this woman