Tasting Darkness

Read Taming Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 3 Chapter 20 – Darius

The surrounding air was all I could hear, the whooshing loud, like I stepped inside a hurricane. Yet her final words travelled to me regardless, almost as if carried on the wind she created. I witnessed the destructive determination on her face, as seconds slipped by me, before I truly understood the intention behind the look Aleera gave me, I raced toward her, tried to shield her power, absorb it..

Yet the moment my magic touched her, she siphoned me for every drop, red energy zapped toward the tower, stealing my breath as I knew I would be powerless within the barrier, when she hit me with so much strength I could no longer hold onto the miniscule piece of power I had left.

A panicked scream ripped out of me the moment her power blasted me into the damned portal. They rebounded off the crystal tower, and echoed inside the portal as I was vacuumed back to Astrid Castle, back home and far from her reach. My heart beat harder as I hit the ground, hand outstretched, as if my sheer will alone could stop the portal closing. I couldn’t hold it in.

Why had she done it? None of it made sense, and try as I might, I couldn’t fathom why Aleera just handed herself over to them like she was a gift on a silver platter.

Meeting death while fighting beside her would have been far better than being forced back home. I tried to keep the portal open, so I could return to her or even just fight to make it bend to my will, but all of my power was gone. Aleera had completely sucked it away, so she could overthrow us and throw us back home through the portal.

labeled that, not without her. Not for me at least, and I was

scrounge up enough power to conjure a portal back to her. But just

powerless. She’d stripped each of us of any real chance we had to get back to her side. Despite knowing that, Kalen,

there before this whole mess. A look I hadn’t seen in

far, we all knew it. He was grasping onto anything he could think of that had even the slightest chance of working. By the time we got there, they would already be long gone. There was no way the wannabe Queen Bitch would give us enough time to get to Aleera

tossed us aside as if we were unworthy of fighting by her side. She abandoned us, knowing full well what her mother was

fist into the hard ground. “She promised!” his scream echoed through the room bouncing off the walls, angry tears streamed down his cheeks. He slammed his other fist down again. “She lied!” Anger was getting the best of him, but I couldn’t blame him. We’d

in it, as he pulled until the strands were tense in his grip. He jerked his head up to the sky and screamed in anger, frustration and the heartache

I’d explain her reasoning to him. Aleera had sent us away on purpose, it hadn’t been a last minute decision, her actions were calculated. We would find out the reason for her actions, I was sure of it. She tossed