BLOOD LEGACIES
Chapter 339: It Was ’Him’ All Along

Chapter 339: It Was ’Him’ All Along

A/N: Song For The Background ~ ’Control By Halsey’

I kicked the door down and it dropped to the floor making a loud noise, catching the attention of the maid and guards in the hallways, but a growl from me made them disperse. Pissed, I walked away hearing my dad telling someone to get the door fixed.

It took everything in me not to shift right now, I kept digging my claws in my hands to use the pain as something to stay sane. I felt like my brain was splitting into two places, if my dad is right I knew just how much change I am in for.

Everything is fucking messed up!

"Emilia!" I barged into her room and she hurried downstairs.

"Dace? You okay?" she asked worriedly about using her robe to cover her body more, I didn’t even know when I kicked one of the chairs to the wall. "What the fuck Dace!"

I snapped my eyes to her and she froze.

"How long have your eyes been that way?" she suddenly asked worriedly. "Dace talk to me"

"It was all Dad" I began and the frustration found its way to my body once again.

"What?"

I rested my hand on the back of the chair gripping it hard as I tried to calm my boiling blood. "My DNA is messed up right now... I’m transmitting into a rogue, permanently"

She covered her mouth "Oh my god"

"And dad knows, he fucking knows!"

"What are you talking about?"

"It was all his plan. To drive me into a corner, using my love for Emma knowing it would break me and I would give in my mind to the beast, making me some perfect dark alpha, so that I will lead the Rogues" I shook my head and Emilia only looked at me with shock in her eyes.

"I-I don’t believe you" she stated in a stern tone. "Dad will never do any of that"

I laughed but it wasn’t one of humor, it was more of a mocking sound, mocking myself and her words as well as a man I called my father.

"He would never do that, he will never put you in harm’s way, you’re his only heir and he’s gradually accepting Emma even though he doesn’t show it, this party was meant to introduce her into our world, he..." her breath was shaky, watching me with her trembling eyes and not once seeing me shifting from the stern dark look I gave her, showing her how serious I am and it was not just some sick joke. It’s the fucking truth!

"No" she shook her head and blinked back tears.

"Remember those stories when we were little? One Dad would tell us about how our great grandfather wanted so badly to unite the werelions we have ripped apart due to nature, the other side of us who lose themselves to the beast, spreading across the world. And how it was our great grandfather’s ultimate goal to unite us and how it was passed down to him"

"That was just a silly bedtime story, Dace"

"Is it?"

"Yes and-"

"LOOK AT ME!" I didn’t mean to shout at her, but really needed her to see fucking sense right now and I was more than glad when she was shaking at the glimpse of my beast on the verge of breaking free. "He fucking cut a deal with the Zalatoris, a fucking deal with them to attack knowing fully well Emma will be there and that was the first stage of him messing with my brain, the very first step to his sick twisted plan"

"Stop" she sobbed.

"The rest of other things happened, putting Emma in danger, emotionally tormenting me with his sick mantra of not falling for a human,"

"Dace please!"

"He fucking wiped the Venators!"

"W-What?" her bloodshot wide eyes were on me now.

"They didn’t leave Emilia, they never got to leave because he trapped them and wiped them out, he overpowered them, he fucking brought them here so that he would rid them all, don’t you see?"

"Dad is complicated, but he will never do that, he can’t, he can’t just wipe Grayson’s first family like that he..." she broke leaning her back to the wall and shaking.

"Too late to doubt any of this now, the whole of Juneau is in danger, the Rogues are in town, they have worked their way through the borders and they are coming for me, they smell me. If I don’t go to them everyone dies and he knows that"

"No no Dace" she rushed to me. "You can’t-"

"If I don’t it will be way worse, that is why I came to ask for a favor, I need you to get Emma and her family out of here, I don’t know if you will be able to get out"

"What do you mean?"

"I smell 6 guards at your door right now, he knew I would fucking tell you" I growled at the last of my words. I gripped her shoulder. "Listen to me, when you get out of here, find Emma, tell her everything, and tell her the more reason to leave, I want her out of here Emilia, now that I still have part of myself, I need to know she will be okay".

"W-What about you Dace? You can’t be serious about going to the Rogues if you go then..."

"No one can do this but me, I will find a way to control them"

"B-But going to them like that, Dace you will lose yourself in the process"

"He didn’t give me much of a choice did he?"

She froze.

"I find a way to tame them, everyone lives"

She gulped.

I’m not entirely sure I can do this, this was all some sick experiment because of my dad, I might approach them and they sniff me as a threat and eat me alive. But I can’t tell Emilia that, or else she would never let me go through with this and we will face the worst, the coming Rogues will bring this place down.

My dad was crazy to think he could tame the Rogues, they are mindless and have never once been led, he was sending me to my death.

But if this means I can protect the people I love... then so be it. I will let them feast on me if I have to. Anything to keep them safe, anything to keep Emma safe.

This wasn’t a mission but a suicidal one.