BLOOD LEGACIES
Chapter 330: Drifting Apart

Chapter 330: Drifting Apart

My heels found the tiles, my mind was wavering and my breath shuddering, I didn’t even realize Dace had stripped me of my clothes and taken off my shoes, carried me to the bath and turned it on, and left me there.

I stood as the warm shower wash the blood off my body, I finally got a grip of my body and hug myself, but I can’t stop myself from thinking about the scene, the blood, fuck the blood, I panicked again as I grabbed the sponge and scrubbed my body until I was sure it came off, I whimper trying to calm myself down until I finally did.

I grabbed the towel and stepped out of the shower after I turned it off. I stilled when I found Dace cleaning off the blood on his body right at the sink, I flinched.

Our eyes connected through the mirror and a cold chill ran through me, his eyes were still a dark shade of gold but he looked away and used the white towel now painted red to wipe the remaining stain off his face.

"W-Why won’t you say something" I whispered but I was certain he would hear me.

He halted his actions, placing his hands on the edge of the sink and ducking his head.

"I-I was scared"

"And who caused that?!" He snapped.

Before I could speak he closed the distance between us, until my back was pressed against the wall.

"You think I don’t know how much you’re shaking? Even now?" he said through clenched teeth and I squeezed my eyes shut. "And whose fault is that?"

I flicked my eyes open and his dark golden orbs bored into mine. "Mine" he growled.

"I-I’m not scared of you Dace"

"You’re lying"

I shook my head placing my palm on his chest, there was still a bit of blood and it caused me to feel sick but I shifted so that I can at least have an understanding with him. I instead focused on his breathing... the rising and falling of his chest.

"I was only scared of the Rogue"

"No," he said sternly. "You were scared of what I shifted into"

"No no"

"You were scared of how I mauled the rogue and I didn’t stop"

"Stop it please"

"And I didn’t plan on stopping, Because I wasn’t satisfied until nothing was left of it"

"You’re scaring me, Dace, please," I said, the tears I was holding in my eyes spilling, but he just looked at me and I can’t have a single read on his emotions he kept his face blank, kept his heart sealed and it was confusing me and terrified my very bones, where were those eyes that looked at me so loving? And found comfort in them?

"Good," he said, pulling away, as he stormed into the bathroom.

I shook where I was trying to calm myself down but I couldn’t, I tried to calm my breathing but I couldn’t so I forced myself out of the bathroom and sat on the bed trying my hardest to breathe until I finally did, it wasn’t the blood that caused my panic anymore, but it was what I saw in Dace’s eyes.

They weren’t the same eyes I knew.

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The drive back to my house was a quiet one, my dress was ruined so I wore pants and his sweater, it was big on me but it gave me comfort and in order not to feel the awkwardness in the ardent silence between us I settled by looking at the passing trees in my view until the blur of it stopped and the engine halted too and then I set my eyes on my house but I did no attempts of getting out and Dace made no attempt of saying anything.

"How..." I began hesitating. "...long have your shifts been painful"

There was about a whole minute of silence and I was already certain he wouldn’t say anything. I faced him and I noticed had his eyes on the road ahead.

"Since my last shift as a Rogue"

"Why didn’t you tell me, Dace?" I said softly trying to keep myself from falling apart, everything just seemed off the cliff.

"Go home, Emma"

My chest squeezed tightly.

"You want me to be scared of you but I won’t"

"You should be!" he snapped, facing me with his hard eyes.

"W-Why are you acting this way? Why are you hurting me?"

He looked away, running his hand through his dark hair.

"I understand why you had to do what you did and I don’t blame you but please don’t push me away and be alone in this, you have been alone in this and you said nothing about it, it’s not fair"

"You don’t understand"

"That’s a lie I-"

"You don’t get it!" he faces me. "What this means for me..." he shook his head and I could see the pain in his eyes. There was something off and I knew it... something was making him act this way, I knew he was trying to keep it away from me and it hurts.

"Then tell me what it means," I said with pleading eyes.

But he looked away and chose silence instead, but I wasn’t backing down.

"Alexander," I said his alpha-given name in hopes he would finally open up to me, something doesn’t feel right.

I watched as his grip on the steering tightened until his knuckles turned white, I gulped.

"Please," he said, closing his eyes like a last resort. "Just go"

My lip trembled and the tears slid down my cheeks, hurt and angry. I took off my seat belt and slammed the door shut, without looking back I walked to my door and heard his car driving away at full speed.

I slammed the door shut refusing to walk away from that spot.

"Emma"

I darted my teary eyes to Grayson and then I broke and he quickly engulfed me in his arms.

"What’s wrong?" he asked in a panicking voice.

I said nothing as I wrapped my arms tightly around him and sobbed in his chest, he quickly pulled away and placed his hands on my shoulders to steady me.

"Did Dace hurt you?"

"W-Why won’t he open up to me?" I said in a sobbing mess. "It hurts, because I know there’s something wrong, he’s pushing me away, why?"

"Emma"

I darted my bloodshot eyes at him.

"You saw his werelion form didn’t you?"

I narrowed my eyes. He sighed heavily.

"Grayson, you know something don’t you," I said. "Tell me" I wasn’t asking.