Chapter 152
Read Taming Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 3 Chapter 27 – He recovered his shock during my tirade,
and he stepped closer, puffing his chest out. Did he think I was afraid of him?
I continued on, unwilling to let him think he’d won. “It’s a shame how you lost everything you had and
blindly went after the wrong person. You made every wrong decision you could have possibly made. And
for what? For a lie, someone told you, one you were st*pid enough to believe to be the truth? You killed
your wife and mate for choices she made protecting you! Something she was forced to do to keep your
miserable a*s alive!”
The smug look faded and was soon reced by anger. He banged his fists against the door and
screamed at me. “You don’t know what you’re talking about! She betrayed me! That woman was a wh*re
who led me to believe he was my son! She tricked me, and had me raising a bas*ard! A result of her
infidelity, a constant reminder that the one woman I loved more than my life, chose to betray me!” he
roared every word, like screaming them out would make me understand he wasn’t the bad guy in this
situation, that he was just some innocent soul.
Fat f***king chance of that. His words did nothing but set off a geyser of fiery rage inside me. How dare
he! His wife did not deserve the death she received at his hands. Lycus was a boy, and the things he had
done to him, for protecting his mother, would forever haunt my memories as if they were my own.
“She was never a wh*re by choice! She had to make a decision to save your worthless life! Don’t believe
me, look for yourself!” I raised my voice. “What you were shown was wrong!”
Porter scoffs and shakes his head, but pauses, his head tilting to the side. Curiosity flickered in his eyes
and his certainty faded. Was he wondering if he killed the woman he loved unjustifiably? She was guilty
of what he said, but her reasoning for it should have mattered, it didn’t warrant her death. “How?” he
asks, his voice is almost quiet, stripped of its earlier triumph. “How are you going to prove to me she was
innocent?”
“Open the door,” I challenged, sitting up and facing him. “I’ll show you, or are you too scared of the truth,
Porter?”
He licked his lips, eyes darting down in each direction of the long hallway, before pulling a swipe card
from his pocket. He wasted no time in forcing his way inside and cell, and no longer hid behind the
protective barrier the ss had provided for him.
Porter stumbled to the foot of the metal gurney, and I nodded to the straps tying me down still. They had
gotten twisted when I flipped over and were digging into my skin.” Loosen this, so I can show you,” I
ordered. This would be the hardest part, would his desire to know the truth be enough to take this risk?
His eyes darted to the door again and his back straightened. He moved towards the top of the metal
table andpletely undid my restraints. “You’re still in this cell, but show me
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He had to see the pieces of his story for himself to truly ept what had happened. I forced a cast on
him, my eyes not leaving his. His face twisted as a dozen different emotions yed across it. I tried my
best to ignore the memories I was showing him, trying to look through the cast and focus outside.
Watching once was bad enough, especially to
know my mother and father also had a hand in her torment. Porter’s hands trembled, and he jerked his
head side to side, trying to see the different angles of the cast he was trapped in.
I’ll admit I was tempted to lock him in it, let the truth y before his eyes over and over again until it was
seared into his mind. Then again, I couldn’t risk him screaming and alerting the rest of them to my magic,
I couldn’t afford that risk this early.
Porter gasped, stumbling back from me. His lips part and he shakes his head, his eyes wild. “No!” he
growled. “You promised to show me the truth!” I dropped the cast.” You’re lying,” he used through
gritted teeth. “You are trying to manipte me into believing she did all that for me. No, this isn’t the
truth!” His aura ripples violently, yet the edges flicker oddly, I had trouble reading that emotion within his
aura, I was still learning them, and only knew what certain color meant, being the poption was mostly
dark Fae it was mostly ck, like lightning certain flickers of color emerge but mostly just tinging the
darkness with their aura.
I shook my head at his denial. Although, I shouldn’t be surprised. Not many could ept the truth and to
do so he would have to face the horrors he’d done in his life, the rtionships he’s severed, in service of
the lie he’d been believing. “Ask my mother, she knows the truth. You murdered your wife for a life, and
treated her son as worse than trash because she loved you and was willing to sacrifice everything. She
loved you enough to be turned into a wh*re to stop them from killing you.”
Horror yed across his face, vivid and visceral. He stared at me, breathing heavily, and he opened his
mouth to reply to me, before he does, he starts shaking his head and turning on his heel and rushing out
of my cell. He locked the door behind him, staring in at me with a tortured look on his face, before he
st*ggered down the hallway, shaking his head in denial with every step.
What a waste of the power I had used. He straightened again, his face hardening, and turned around,
not toward my cell, but storming off in the direction my mother had left in earlier. Clearly my words got
under his skin, because if he thought what I showed him was a lie he wouldn’t be going to hunt her
down, No now he was now doubting his actions.