BLOOD LEGACIES
Chapter 190: Away From Embarrassment

Chapter 190: Away From Embarrassment

EMMA

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Miles and Henry dropped me home, I ate out with them so it was already late. The food didn’t get to my system well, not after the embarrassing thing that happened today. I can’t believe I let myself walk up to Grayson and started a talk with him. Fuck! I still blush with embarrassment because I was like a damn open book before his gaze and yet I can’t read anything off him. god just thinking about it made me flush and I couldn’t get my head straight, that particular moment kept playing in my head and I mentally called myself stupid each fucking time.

"How was school?"

I looked up at Vanessa in the kitchen.

"Um, you heard?"

She stopped with the dishes facing me with a sad look. "Yeah I heard" she nodded.

"You knew him" it wasn’t a question it was a fact because I could tell from her sad looks.

"Not too well but I did... it’s a sad passing"

I nodded. "Have you..." I gulped. "Have you found out what killed him?"

"We’re working on it Emma, there’s no need to concern yourself" she walked to me and rubbed my arms. "Just stay safe okay?"

I nodded, I knew as always getting answers from her was a slim chance, I have come to learn one thing since staying in Juneau, adults like to handle the big stuff and leave us out of it, mostly supernaturals. I get why Dace wanted to find out himself, this was the reason too... I just hope they were able to find out if it was a vampire attack, I was still all jumpy after what happened today. I so badly wanna see Dace that I felt like I would suffocate, and even now I did, I messaged him a number of times but he hasn’t replied. I need to lie down.

"Good night" I mumbled to her and she gave me a smile.

"Good night"

I hurried upstairs, I had a feeling she wanted to be left alone... she didn’t seem all chatty like she used to.

I grip my door knob turning it open and I gasped.

"I don’t understand... the dreamcatcher didn’t ward me off," Dace said with curious looks.

I quickly locked my door, I wasn’t expecting to see him. "Hey," I said while studying him, his clothes looked changed too. "Um about that I cast a spell"

"A spell?"

"Y-Yes inviting only you to my room" I mumbled with a blush.

He sighed. "I’m sorry baby for not-" I stopped him before he could finish when I rushed to him and jumped, he caught me with no effort as I wrapped my legs and arms around him.

"I missed you," I said, burying my face in his neck... I know it was silly of me because it has only been a few hours but it felt like days to me and finally, the pulsing of my mark stopped now as I made body contact with him.

"I know, I missed you too, sorry for not replying to your messages" he mumbled to my ears and I shivered, he buried his face in my neck taking a deep whiff of my scent and he groaned, I swore I felt his muscles constrain.

"What did you find?" I pulled away, facing him.

"It’s not a vampire"

I frown. "Then what is it?"

He exhaled sharply moving us to my bed but he didn’t put me down, I wondered if I was heavy but he didn’t fart about it, maybe I wasn’t, he seemed relaxed and not minding our bodies glued to one another at all.

"It’s something else but I can’t identify it"

"I thought you could"

"Yes my same thought but whatever I took a whiff of I have never smelt it before"

"The janitor didn’t just die then, someone or something killed him?"

"I know for certain the families will handle it, we just need to be careful"

"Will they?"

He leaned toward me. "Yes, at least we know it’s not a vampire"

I nodded, he dropped me but I still had my arms wrapped around his neck.

"Are you okay?’’ he asked, worried now.

I nodded. "I’m fine really, I was just shaken, I thought it was a vampire"

"Hey" he placed two fingers beneath my chin and raised it so that I could look at him which I did. "You’re safe, you know that... I WILL keep you safe, no one will touch you"

I smiled at his words because I knew them to be true, I didn’t need to question any of this. I mean this is Dace, this is who he is when it comes to me.

He kissed me, shutting my brain down and I returned it with a moan, just a kiss from him was enough to restart my body in several multiple ways, especially as his hands tightened against my waist before moving to grope me, giving my ass a gentle squeeze making me jump before I giggled.

He smiled over my lips before continuing to kiss me and pulled away. "Fuck you’re like fuel to my fire" he mused and then he leaned for another kiss but I leaned back. "What?" He raised an eyebrow.

I bit my lip, I was nervous but I swallowed it. "Will you let me now?"

He narrowed his eyes almost like he was trying to read me. "Let you wha-"

I didn’t let him finish as I fell to my knees. My heart throbbing like it would break loose from my chest. I just reminded myself to keep calm.

"Emma"

I looked up at him shyly but he didn’t stop me, he just watched me curiously. Surely he knew what I was about to do but it seemed like he was curious about how... I gulped. He wasn’t stopping me, he just had his hand at his side, so I was good right?

I leveled my gaze at him and shakily reached for his waistline but he grabbed my wrist in a tight hold, and I gasped when I looked over at him... I regretted it because his eyes were dark, so dark that all the color seemed drained.

"Don’t start what you can’t finish, baby girl"