Chapter 129
Read Taming Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 3 Chapter 4 – In the next vision, Ie to learn that Darius not handing Kalen over
means he became the `experiment, yet it still wasn’t clear to me why they were experimenting. However, it became clear why he
hated my father. My father was the head scientist and the one that came up with the vile tests they ran on him,
yet Darius didn’t hate him, not like he did his father. As Darius slumped over in the chair, drool dripping
onto the floor after being shocked by electrodes, his father grabs his hair, lifting his head up.
“He has had enough. Are you trying to kill your son, Xandrius?” my father asks him. So that was his
father’s name, I had wondered, he hardly spoke of his father and no one referred to him by name.
Xandirus Wraith was a monster.
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“What? Of course not, Grayson. I am just saying Darius can handle more than you think.” My father
shakes his head, and Darius watches them, his vision fuzzy. He just wanted it to end.
“We are so close to a breakthrough. We can replicate it, be all-powerful, we can save the world, save
the Harmony-Fae from extinction, imagine how much we can sell this serum for, My father says, his
words confuse me. Wasn’t this serum the reason we were extinct?})
Darius’ father purses his lips. “Are you sure it will work?”
“Positive, we are so close. We just need to figure out the right tweak to his DNA. But that won’t work if
he is dead. Take your son home. Let him rest,” He nods before walking over to Darius, who could
hardly move. He undoes his restraints, yet Darius’ eyes are on the vial my father held up to the light
before he sets it in some machine that spins it around.
“You have been very good today, son, you will be rewarded when we get home, you can see Molly,” his
father tells him, picking up his limp body. Darius mood instantly lifts hearing his sister’s name, but it was
bing apparent that his sister was used as a tool to make himply.
“Give him the week off. Let him be a child. He endures too much. He needs rest,” My father tells him.
I don’t understand why this memory lingered in his head, why it remained, but for some reason it was
one that stuck, some core memory of his.
From Darius thoughts the only reason I obtained for why it stuck with him besides the agony he lived
through, was that it was the day he realized by not handing over the boy he didn’t know, that this would
be his future, forever strapped to a chair to be tested on.
The memory fizzled to what appeared to beter that night. Darius was reading over his father’s notes,
he had snuck into his father’s office, stolen the documents with Kalen’s parents names on it, opened it
to learn how to kill off the Harmony- Fae side. He knew if he wanted to keep his promise, he had to find
a way because Kalen would be sensed. It was only a matter of time.
Darius could barely hold his head up, he was tired, his eyes hurt, but he had the information he
needed, and he was right, to kill off what makes them a harmony-fae they had to die, or it could be
removed by a Demonic-Fae, he could siphon it if he was careful enough not to kill the boy he saw.
That’s how Kalen’s parent lost their white magic, Xandrious siphoned Kalen’s father by ident, and
his mother wanting to die with her husband, who she thought was dead, she jumped through a window
to kill herself, only to wake up a Dark-Fae.
Darius opened the portal to the room he saw in Kalen’s parent’s head. He hovered over Kalen’s
sleeping form, despite how much he wished he could give him up to take his ce, he made a
promise. He killed Kalen’s parents, he couldn’t bring himself to kill Kalen too by giving him to his father.
Darius watches him, watches the glow that emanates from him. Darius could feel his
magic, it wasn’t like his, it was weaker, untrained. Yet there was also something else he could sense in
Kalen, something that separated them from being the same, Kalen’s magic mad him feel sad, he
couldn’t exin it, he just knew the emotion of what he was feeling from him, some darker version of
what he possessed himself.
He purses his lips, ncing around at the other sleeping children, he was hesitant at first, worried that
maybe Kalen was masking his power, worried it wasn’t as weak as he first thought, yet feeling for it
again, he lets out a breath, Kalen’s power wasn’t awoken yet, so it was nothing for Darius to steal it,
remove it.
Darius Ie to realize had been trained in hist magic for as long as he could remember, he had no
memories where he had no magic, it had always been there, he was an oddity, a rarity.
Darius feels for his darker elements, feels for the demonic side of him as he pokes Kalen’s cheek with
his index finger, I watch as ck webbing spreads across Kalen’s face, his breath making frost clouds
in the air, and he shudders.
His brows pinch like he is having a bad dream, Darius curious peers into his head to see what he is
dreaming.
He knew he was their son, but what he didn’t realize was that from the moment he was born, they knew
he would be put at risk. So they ced him in the basket at the orphanage doors when he was born
and through Kalen’s dreams, he had ess to every moment since he was born.
Seeing that Darius jerks out of his head, Kalen grew up believing he was unwanted, yet Darius knew
otherwise, he knew Kalen’s parents ced him in the orphanage because they loved him, they just
didn’t know any other way to protect him.
Shaking his head, Darius wipes his puffy eyes before doing what he came there to do, he siphons
Kalen’s magic, careful to only take the light magic, knowing he had no way to return it, if he took it all.
Darius watches Kalen’s aura change, watches the shadows in it to determine he got it all, only once it
was ck and no color remained did he remove his finger from his cheek.
Darius watches him sleep, wondering why he saved him, he couldn’t exin it, but he was d he did.
Darius opens the portal to go back to his room, when he hears the nkets ruffle and Kalen whimpers
in his sleep. He stops looking back at him, Kalen had kicked the nket off and Darius tucks him back
in. “Your parents loved you, I wish my father loved me the way yours loved you,” Darius whispers to
him before turning back to the portal.
Only when he does, did he notice his father watching him through the portal he left open. Darius
freezes, his father’s eyes furious.