BLOOD LEGACIES
Chapter 340: Killing Intent

Chapter 340: Killing Intent

EMMA

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"I haven’t heard from Dace ever since that day," Emilia said after telling us everything that happened.

I couldn’t speak and I just sat frozen like time was done with me, the only thing I could hear was my fast-beating heart. At that moment I darted my eyes to Grayson, seated without uttering one word, his knees bouncing up and down, his fixated on his fingers tangled together, but I could feel it... he looked like he would snap any minute, in his eyes was something wild, the wide range of killing intent was hanging in the air.

He just heard the family that brought him up was wiped out, I can’t possibly imagine how he feels right now.

"It was all my dad, the vampire attack, all just some stupid scheme, I don’t get it," Emilia said sniffing, she looked distraught. "I would have come sooner but my dad pinned werelions on me, it took a while before I would wave them off"

"The Rogues" Grayson finally spoke in a tone I couldn’t recognize. "Where are they now?"

"I smell them, they are closing in, and I don’t know if Dace succeeded or not, I’m worried about"

Grayson suddenly rose to his feet. "Emma get mom and aunt, leave town"

"W-What?" I said dumbfounded as he walked and reached for under his bed and pulled out a back bag, I clearly knew what those were.

"What are you gonna do Grayson?" Emilia asked in a worried tone.

"This town is no longer safe, rogues are not like werelions; they will kill any human in sight. If the barrier around here can’t stop them I don’t know what can" he paused as he unzipped the bag and faced us. "Dace probably failed to keep them at bay,"

I gulped at his words and I felt a piece of me crumbling. "Y-You don’t know that"

"What I know Emma, I need to get you and others out of here, and I have a werelion to hunt," he says, cocking his guns and strapping them to his body.

"You don’t think you can kill my dad do you?" Emilia instantly rose to her feet and he did too, facing her with a blank expression.

"What? You think I won’t do it?" he says with clenched teeth. "He ended up on my hunt list when he killed the woman who raised me and put Emma’s life at stake for some stupid experiment!"

"He’s an alpha, in a mansion filled with werelions, it won’t be that easy!"

"I don’t care!"

"Grayson this is suicide!"

"Exactly what your brother did when he thought he would take on a whole damn pack of werelions!"

"He left to sacrifice himself so that you both can have time to flee, he’s doing what he can," she said, hitting him against the chest and he forcibly grabbed her hands together to stop.

"Listen to me, everything is in shit, everyone will die if we don’t do something"

"And you think killing my father will stop that?!"

"No, it just gives me the satisfaction to put a bullet through his brain!"

"Enough!" I screamed at them and they eased facing me. "Stop it both of you, just..." I couldn’t even finish as the hot tears streamed down my cheeks, but I quickly wipe them with the back of my hand, this was no time to be crying, no matter how scared I am right now of any possibility of Dace being dead, I felt like dying myself but I don’t believe it, I don’t believe Dace can just be gone.

"We have to think of a plan"

"Emma" Grayson began.

"I found a Grimoire, one that can rewrite Dace’s DNA back to the way it was"

"What?" Emilia said in shock.

"But we can’t decipher it yet and it will take too much time," Grayson said.

"No..." I shook my head. "Not if we ask for help, look we can’t do this alone, we can’t fight this alone if there truly is a whole pack of Rogues then it is gonna be a massacre and definitely not can you go off on your own Grayson, you will get yourself killed"

Grayson ran his hands through his hair frustratedly. "What are you suggesting?"

"We have to let our Clan know"

Emilia’s eyes went wide. "That breaks everything, the peace treaty, everything that has laid for hundreds of years, they will-"

"Not if we find Dace and let him take the lead,"

"You want to take my father out too?"

"I don’t know, Emilia, I can’t think, I’m just trying to make sure we all survive this without bloodshed"

She sighed heavily. "You know when I found out my dad was in on all this... I didn’t wanna believe it, I didn’t want to believe my own father would ruin his son’s life just because of some stupid purpose, he practically led Dace to get thrown in the jaws of death" She nods and there was a pause as if she was trying to let the realization sink in.

"We have to find Dace too... you said the Rogues are attracted to him right? If we rewrite his DNA then the Rogues have no reason to keep coming," I said.

"That is the difficult part because we don’t know if he’s alive"

"Just stop saying that!" I snapped at Grayson. "P-Please s-stop saying he might not be alive because my heart can’t take it"

Grayson opened his mouth to say something but he paused and regret flushed in his eyes.

"I-I’m sorry I shouldn’t have snapped at you like that" I added in a trembling tone, I knew he was blinded in pain and anger and I shouldn’t have lashed out on him knowing fully well we were all dealing with the shock and fear of the situation.

I wiped the tears on my cheeks that just couldn’t stop coming forth, the tug in my chest was making it harder to breathe.

"Grayson, Emma?"

We froze at the sound and I heard footsteps downstairs. "My mom and aunt are back," I said, facing them. "Are we doing this or not? Because there is no other option, we can’t deal with this on our own, we have to take this step, Emilia"

Her gaze was leveled and I could tell she was trembling, she only gave a nod and that was all I needed as I walked out of Grayson’s room and rushed downstairs.