BLOOD LEGACIES
Chapter 231: Vulnerable

Chapter 231: Vulnerable

DACE

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"If Vanessa thinks staying away from you will give Emma peace then I want nothing more"

His words ignited me, fueled me but all I could do was just stand there, watch him with my stoic expression as he walked back to the house. I wanted to pounce on him, go on a killing sprang until every last one of the Shermans dropped dead but each time I pictured Emma’s face, a face I longed to see and touch or her eyes I wanted to pin on me I just...felt weak, vulnerable and damaged without her.

I have been coming here in the past month and yet nothing, Vanessa didn’t spare me a glance nor had I seen her since that day, and just like that 4 weeks passed but yet it felt like months for me, years and I haven’t set my eyes on my baby girl, the weaker I got, muddled and destroyed within me.

I would just watch the house like a fool and yet there was nothing that could be done, there was nothing I could do to get inside that house and as usual I would leave and drown myself in alcohol as if that even worked.

I turned more whiskey into my glass before chugging it.

"You went there again didn’t you?" I heard Emilia but I wasn’t bothered by her presence, I just focused on my drink hoping it would make me sleep... yes I haven’t shut my eyes for a month, I was drowning.

"What kind of a fucking Male am I?" I said turning my head to her, she was just standing next to the bar Island table. I turned my eyes back to the bottle I was drowning. "A pride powerful creature and yet I can’t do anything" my grip on my glass snapped as well as the glass, I just waved my hand off it and grabbed another.

"Sucks, doesn’t it," she said.

It fucking sucks.

"But this was bound to happen and we both know it, the only thing keeping your relationship was Emma, and now that she..." she paused with a sigh.

"I haven’t been doing much have I?" I brought the glass to my lips before taking a sip. "I can’t even claim her properly, she never belonged to me did she"

"Dace"

"Even if she chooses to be with me it doesn’t change the fact of her original clan" I faced her watching as she took a seat beside me and took a glass and poured herself a drink chugging on it.

She sighed facing me. "You need a shave"

Do I care?

"Dace" she began in a serious tone. "You know..." she gulped. "You and Emma didn’t complete the mate bond you could-"

"Don’t go there"

"Listen to me"

"I said don’t fucking go there!"

"I’m worried about you Dace, dad wants you to bear but I don’t know how long you will. Reject Emma and ease yourself this pain"

I growled. "What did I say about going there!"

"Look I like Emma, okay? I do not dislike her but don’t you think she’s not meant to be with you and-"

I rose to my feet.

"Dace!"

"You were the last person I didn’t wanna hear this from!" I barked at her. "I thought you were on my side" I added softly.

"I’m on your side Dace" she began in a stronger tone that I couldn’t doubt. "But you’re future Alpha to your people and you do not need to be weak or linger"

"What has gotten into you?"

"Reality"

I huffed and then I paused as I pinned her down with my gaze but she quickly looked away. "Is this dad’s plan?" I began. "Was this his idea that I bear and crumble in despair and then I reject her and free myself?"

She bit her bottom lip, the scent that radiated off her told me all my words were true.

"You’re my family and yet you want me to be mateless?"

"Emma’s a mistake!"

"And you don’t get to decide that!"

She rose to her feet. "She MIGHT be and your true Female might be out there waiting for you and you might not know it"

I pointed to her. "She bears my mark, and she’s mine!" I growled.

"Then where is she? She should be by your side, she should not be deprived of seeing you. What dad and mom have taught us is that no matter what a Male and Female are destined for each other and the same species!"

I scoffed at her words.

"I do not hate Emma, Dace, I like her and she’s a wonderful girl. But we’re running away from the truth, don’t tell me you have never doubted this" She took my hand. "I’m not trying to be a villain here... I’m worried about my brother and that I might lose you if you don’t overcome this, Vanessa won’t let you see her, and the more distance you bear the more it will consume you from the inside out. Dad wants you to bear in hopes that she might wake up and come back to you but... he knows this too, the only salvation you have is to reject her"

I shifted my eyes to hers. "You’re saying... after everything I should leave her?"

"It’s an option"

"And you expect me to give up on her?" I pulled on her hand and drew her close and her eyes trembled. "Nothing... nothing will EVER make me do that" the gravity of my words caused her to tremble under my hold. I don’t know how much of an aura of dominance I allowed to spring free but it was enough to get her trembling under my hold and making my words mark her brain.

If my dad thinks this silly notion of his will make me give up on Emma then he was wrong. He wanted me to set aside my weakness, he thinks Emma’s my weakness and here I thought he was supporting me on this, it was probably just a silly test of his, to see if Emma is capable of being my Female and now he wants me to give her up?