Tasting Darkness

Read Taming Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 3 Chapter 14 - Darius POV He darted in without hesitation, but there was something different, and started tearing them limb from limb. Yet it becapparent that we missed something because these new Power hunters. Dead by his claws and teeth, missing limbs and blood drenching him were something more than power hunters. Because one by one they started rebuilding themselves, putting themselves back together. Limbs stitching back together. Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, they put the part of themselves back together again.

“What the f*ck!” | curse in disbelief. Lycus stops and shakes his head with a growl like he can’t believe what he is witnessing. The hunters form a circle around him closing him in and the power that flowed out of them, caged him until his body is pressed close to the ground, or he'll be burned by a dof fire. He snarls, but there's nothing he can do.

Kalen grunts as yet another attack is driven through his body. “I'm tired of this,” she grabs him by his chain and flings his body off the side of the roof. He free-falls and the chain jerks taunt as he reaches the end of it and the b*tch tries to hang him.

My powers fly through the air, they crackle aroundas | fight my way through the hunters. Kalen’s limp form dangles above me, but I don’t reach for him. I jump high into the air and land beside her. She's startled and drops the chain’s end, letting Kalen’s body crash to the hard ground below.

| waste no tin stalking forward. There's nothing she can do to stop me.

“Take one more step, and I'll blow your mate’s head off,” she sneers at me, holding up a small red button. “That chain is special in more ways than one.” | pause. The power flowing through his body | had no doubt he could take, but having his head removed? That was a bit more extreme. That would require more than a little stitching and help from the shadows to return him to Necromancy | had no issue dabbling in, but even it had its limits.

She laughs and struts forward, a long jagged knife in her hands. Its wicked edge glints with the light. On your knees, Darius,” she commands.

Tobias grunts, forcing my attention to him. One of the hunters has a knife of their own and is slicing into him, cut after cut. Lycus is burning alive, the fire is too much for him in such a tight area, and Kalen is still a battered heap at the bottom of the wall.

F*ck! My mind frantically searches for a way out of this, but my mate's lives were at stake. | chere willing to die, but I am not willing to sacrifice my mates.

| drop to my knees, and she brings the knife to my neck, running the tip from one side to the other with the barest of pressures and creating a thin ribbon of blood. | close my eyes, reading myself for death, praying mine will be all she decides to take.

One breath, two, three | take in waiting for it. However, a high pitched screech steals our attention and my eyes open and we both look up as a phoenix desperately throws its body into the shield, only to bounce off.

The b*tch laughs, the sound of it enough to beat against my ears. | wish | could throw her off this building, but | can’t risk their death. She returns the knife to the place she had put it before and smiled against the side of my face. “Goodbye, Darius, go to hell where you belong.” She's right. | do believe in hell, i deserve to be embraced by its flames and for my soul to be devoured. | close my eyes and let my body relax as | wait for the sweet release of death, Each breath | take, waiting for it to cwhen the Phoenix hits the shield again, followed by another. ” That's impossible,” she murmurs, and | hear her stagger back. My eyes snap open to see the sky outside the dburning orange.

The shield cracked, fracturing like glass with each jolt. Each hairline crack growing larger than the largest as the Phoenixes torpedo the shield, like a meteor shower, when | hear her scream.

Then feel her burning anger, makinglook to the center of the circling Phoenixes as they dropped one by one, bringing assaults down on the shield imprisoning us. Aleera hovered in the air, her anger so violent, so consuming, | am stunned as she looks at the shield encasing us when suddenly she screams.

Her Phoenixes caw a mighty scream along with her as flames erupt from their beaks, blasting the shield, and engulfing it in flames. | lose sight of her, but not for long because her fury turns white-hot, and she suddenly burned brighter than the stars as she dove straight into the flames.

Her wings closing in around her and | gasp as she free-falls through the flames and crashes straight through the shield. The blast of power that emitted from her when she did was like a shock wave, burning hot air blasting us and knockingon my back, the ground rumbles.

| sit up just in tto witness the Fae below scattering like ants. Most only got out of her way just in tas she hits the ground.

The force in which she hit the ground created a crater. One so deep she disappeared. | crawl to the edge, peering down at it, when lava bubbles and spews out of it. | choke. Too much power, too much power for anyone to withstand.

“No!” Tobias screams seeing the lava engulf her, he screams the words my screamed, The sones her mother did.

“Aleera!” Kalen screams only to be shocked by the device. Tense seconds pass, my heart thudding so hard it drowns out all other noise. Tears pr¥ck my eyes and her Phoenixes circle above chirping in song when | see the violent lava erupting and spewing out, eating away the edges of the crater. Then it stopped, rippled, and silence fell over everyone.

It was as if tstopped, the lava calms turning placid like the stillest lake.

I hold my breath until she casually walks out, the Lava and flames do not burn her. Like an avenging angel from the pits of hell, she took center stage, her eyes locked on her mother. And damn was she furious.

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