Tasting Darkness

Read Taming Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 3 Chapter 34 –  Aleera

My mind became lost to the dream walk with my mates. It was so real, I almost felt like I could reach out and touch them, to share the joy that vibrated through them. I was consumed by the emotion until I felt the very ground shake, and the walls cracked around me. Cr**ks zipping up the walls and making holes to the cells next door. Not large enough to get into, but enough for me to see my terrified neighbor.

I looked up at the ceiling, dust sprinkling over me, and my eyes darted to the other Fae locked in their cells. The power of my mates flared through the bond, my infinity mark was glowing, lit up bright and burning against me they were coming for me.

The tremors are violent, murmurs and panicked cries ring out as the Harmony Fae worry the roof would cave in. Now or never, now it is. The time for my mother having the upper hand, or even thinking she still had it, was over.

I would not allow her to use me for her tyrannical plans, or risk my unborn child’s life in the process. This little game of hers was over, I was ending it was ending it. Porter hadn’t bothered chaining me down again, so getting out wasn’t difficult, it was as easy as sending surges of electric current to disable the cell’s locks.

My neighbor jerked to attention, and watched me with wide eyes. I would get all the Harmony-Fae out of this hellish prison, we would all unite and fight our way to freedom, stopping my mother in her tracks. The time for waiting was over.

I sent more power into the cell door, and the surge traveled not just to my cell, but up and down the entire line. The moment each lock undid, the digital panels controlling their collars exploded.

single door slid open. One by one, the Harmony-Fae eased themselves out of

until a stampede of feet rushed our way. Based on the odor that drifted to us, I could tell what we were dealing with long before they showed their ugly hideous faces Th Theor ugly, hideous faces. Those zombie like power hunters my mother used before

on me, nor would it on the rest of the Harmony Fae who were preparing themselves for what was coming next. – The first set of power-hunters stumbled near me,

flames traveled from one monster to the other, setting an entire squad of them

they could handle me, and she could just swoop in to

along my back, yet there wasn’t enough room to spread and open them, however as I flexed the muscles of my back, feathers appeared with a mere thought, and reaching my hand back, I plucked them off, and I tossed them like

was waging must have given those Harmony-Fae around me motivation. Wisps of power flooded the hall as fireballs slammed

brainless minions. The wind whistled around me as a

were fighting back with a new-found hope. No longer restrained inside the confines of their cells,

rallied together, throwing their attacks with more and more enthusiasm as they saw the zombies fall one after another. I needed to get

her, and I would make d*mned sure it ended with her too. Under no circumstances would she get away this time, I would use all my power to ensure she didn’t slink off into the shadows to keep plotting for a way to bring about