Tasting Darkness

Book 2 Chapter 7 ” Just remember , | gave you power , Aleera . | can always take it away . | allow you to be with us ! So take it or leave it . Our mates will listen if | tell them too . You may have the bond , but | had years of being their keeper . They are sired towhich is stronger than your incomplete bond . You are not the only keeper here . Just remember that ! ” Darius growled before lettinggo . He then storms out of the basement .

| glared at him as he stomped off up the steps . | should have known better . The media always portrayed him to be a monster .

And once again , he showedthey were right . Yet the stupid bond craved him . | push the intense feelings to apologize and beg at his feet for acceptance down . Instead , | let my anger over him fester . The longer | sat there , the more | hated them and myself . Well , no, not all of them . Not Kalen . | don’t think it is possible to ever hate Kalen . He was as much a victim in all this as | was . We all were in a way , but they weren't the only ones that sacrificed everything . | tossed my entire life away to run from the very man who seemed hell bent on destroying. When my grandmother died , and | was thrown into that school , | went on autopilot . Hide what | was from the world for so long , even | forgot who | was and what | was capable of . Everything that has happened , losing my parents , then my grandmother , my entire life turned upside down . It slowly broke the pieces off that | used to love . Only then did | suddenly believe | could live without magic , slip into the human world and be happy . And at first, | was happy to let those pieces go, glad to give my magic up because it was the safest thing to do . Mum said to hide what | was , that no one could know . And I did just that, yet her words were more than words .

They becmy life . And now | didn’t want to restrain myself any longer . | have been shackled for years . | didn’t fit in here with them . | didn’t fit anywhere . How could |, when | was the only one of my kind ? Never able to reveal what | am and who | used to think | would one day be before | lost everything ? | used to love magic , loved being a Harmony Fae . Until | was suddenly forced to hide it from everyone without realizing my parents were already hidingfrom the world . Dad used to say , at h| could be whatever | wanted , and | loved that . But to the rest of the world , | had to be Dark Fae and Dark Fae only . It was the swith my grandmother . Hwas a place of safety , where | was free until she was gone and | no longer had hat all . | no longer had a choice . My safe place was again gone , and | lost what that felt like . What having a hfelt like . After | marked Kalen , | finally got a sense of that again . Only for Darius to rip it away this morning all over again .

| thought we were past everything , and | was finally free to be who | actually was . It should have been a turning point , but now | wonder if it was just a ruse and Darius’s shock at what | was that made him do it . | was just stool he could use to becstronger because that is what it felt like this morning , with the way he usedfor my magic, only to tossaway like | was garbage afterward . It angered. | wasn't sure | could go back to hiding what | was . | was sick of hiding , sick of being repressed ! They know what | am now . And if they think I will just wait around for them to decide if they want, they were mistaken , | was sick of being shackled and chained by fear, by the judgement of what others would think . | realized that | had given up everything until there was nothing left of. | spent all my energy running from them, giving them control , which is what did.

By running from them, | ran from myself put myself in this situation . Thinking that running from them wastaking control of a problem | didn’t want to be in . | was wrong . and They held all the power , and Darius showedthat first chance he got this morning . However , | did know that despite him hating, he would protectand keepsafe if | stayed because it benefited them to do so . As much as | wanted to run again, | also didn’t want to go back to that repressed version of myself . | no longer wanted to be a Dark Fae . | wanted to be able to be who | am without fear of it .

Yet even | knew how dangerous it was to be a Harmony Fae in this world . So if | left , | would be forced to suppress it all over again . Here , | was at least safe to find out what | was capable of . | don’t even fully understand what the true meaning of being a Harmony Fae was , and | suddenly wanted to find out . And Darius wasn't going to stopfrom finding that power . The power | was born to harness . With a power that could even take the feared Demonic - Fae King down . With that thought in mind , | got up . Anger coursed throughas | opened up the portal to Tobias’s classroom .

| stepped into the room at the back , sitting behind everyone . | did miss school . | always loved learning about Fae history and loved the practical side that | always made excuses not to participate in . But now , now | had another motivator to getto stay . Here , | could learn freely with no repercussions because everyone here was aware of what | was . There was no need to hide it . And if that helpsget back at Darius , then so be it .

He wanted to destroy? Play with my bond ? Toy with? And turn my mates against? Fine ! Two can play at that g. So let's see who breaks who first.

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