BLOOD LEGACIES
Chapter 354: Broken Trust

Chapter 354: Broken Trust

My bare feet ached, the pain of the constant impact to the ground, I could smell the blood oozing out, every sting was enough to get my body quivering. My lungs were collapsing with every gush of air that came off me. I felt like falling but for some reason, I couldn’t stop running even though it was hard to breathe.

My raspy breath filled the area around me, my sobs echoed too, and the endless tears kept coming. I felt devastated, I felt anxiety, I felt guilt. And the thoughts in my head were no better, they were eating me up just as I deserved.

What have I done?

I couldn’t think straight, it jumbled within me ready to ruin me from the inside out, and just like that my legs gave out and I dropped to the ground, with a shuddering breath, whether from the cold night or the pain that shook through me. I felt so cold and all warmth was gone.

It took a minute before I recognized my own wail of cries taking over into the night skies. What I had done was irreversible, I destroyed everything, I broke our bond, the connection was gone, I couldn’t feel him anymore, and it felt like I was a spark of dust ready to be hurled away.

The spell wasn’t meant to rewrite his DNA it was meant to break the connection we had, how could I not have seen that? How did I make that mistake? Where did I go wrong? I only meant to save him and yet I destroyed everything with my own hands. My desperate actions led to this disaster and it was all my own fault.

I was the one who begged him to work with this spell, a spell I thought could lead to his salvation turned into our worst nightmare. The look in Dace’s eyes haunted me, everything that transpired, the blood, the pain, it was sewn into my head and repeated over and over again.

I ran my hand through my hair and gripped it hard. I made sure the spell was the right one, I was completely sure the spell would work, and yet it ruined everything. I made sure to seek help for it so that I wouldn’t make any mistakes. Owen translated the spell for me and-

Owen

I paused as my lip quivered and I tucked my hair more on the verge of ripping it out. Owen would have known if the spell wasn’t correct, he would have, he would have-

"No" I trembled. "No" I shook my head.

It all made sense now... and my foolishness led to this, I shouldn’t have trusted Owen to help Dace. He is my friend and yet he did this to me, he must have done something to the spell, I choose to believe that because I made sure... I made sure I took the right spell.

Owen must have switched it.

He betrayed me and for what? I begged him, I came to him when I knew he was the only one that would listen, why would go this far? He took the one thing in my life that gave me life, that made all these dreams turn into reality.

The very instant I met Dace in the pouring rain it was like my heart started beating again when he walked into my life, he turned my world into his, and the warmth he gave me was like an imprint on my body, but now it was all gone all because I trusted a friend.

Hearing rustle noise I turned as my chest heaved. The Rogues were close and they were tailing me. Forcing myself to stand on my feet, I began limping instead of running, there was no energy left on me and I couldn’t run anymore. The sound behind me got closer and I turned once again as dread found me.

I paused as I set my eyes on a grotesque beast bigger than the Rogues I recognise, and the dark golden eyes that shone in the darkness. I would recognize those eyes anywhere.

Dace found me

It happened so fast, one minute I stood before the mistake of my actions and the next thing was pristine pain that ruined every inch of me, dragging me into a hot impact that made me lose all my urge to breathe.

Dace’s canines sank into my side so deeply that blood gushed out of me. I couldn’t scream or make a sound, I was simply paralyzed in shock. My body was lost to gravity because the impact caused my limp body to drop to the ground knocking the remaining air out of me.

I heaved like I was having a panic attack, my trembling hand clenching my side, as tears filled my eyes. Ignorant of the spilling mess around me I forced my body to stand, I don’t know how I did it, but maybe because I felt light at that instant.

My weak eyes landed on Dace growling at me about to go for another attack but that was when my body gave out and I let my body fall, I thought I would feel the ground once again but instead, my body fell fast from the cliff.

Everything slowed down and the flashes in my eyes were of the wind around me and my eyes set at the top of the cliff where Dace stood.

’You’re the only one keeping my sanity.’

’If I lose you I don’t think I will be able to control this.’

’I don’t want to hurt you, Emma, I won’t be able to live with myself.’

Everything flashed before my eyes, Dace’s vulnerable expression as he told me his fears, how I was the only one keeping him going, his reason to still look at the good side.

But that reason was gone

And I took that away from him

The water swallowed me and I submerged deep into the ocean, into the embrace of the cold dark water as I met my end.