BLOOD LEGACIES
Chapter 424: Letting My Guard Down

Chapter 424: Letting My Guard Down

I knew I’m on his shit list and I don’t fucking care, all I care about is saving my sister from his wrath. I don’t know his game, I don’t want to stick around long enough to find out because I know it’s not good. The rumors didn’t do justice to what was said about him. Emma lived in denial because of it and did not believe any word about it. She must have seen it for herself, just how far gone Dace is.

But still, I wondered how she could stay alive long enough in his hands.

"She told Dace that she was Pregnant"

My lips almost switched in a smile. Of course, she did. "Let me guess and the father is Luther?"

She narrowed her eyes. "Is there something between them? Did Emma give her heart to him?"

"It’s complicated"

"Complicated"

"She can’t live without him" saying it was like a lump was digging in my throat but it was all the truth.

Emilia went silent and made no further means to question me, I should be thankful but secretly I wanted her to keep asking questions, hearing her voice was everything and her silence was just unnerving.

"A lot has happened huh?" she said.

"Yeah, a lot" The last five years were a space I can’t outlive. Dealing with Emma’s trauma and her constant mental outbreak, silently praying she would get better and let her demons go but not even I can fight her demons, that was one thing I failed to do as her brother. But I did make a promise and I intend to keep it. Even if it means letting go...

"Will you help me?" I asked but this time more frantic. She goes silent again like she was thinking.

"I can only get you an audience with her, I might live here but everything is in Dace’s control"

I can only imagine what she has to go through all these years, with her brother drastically changing and taking over the werelion clan as their Alpha, not just an Alpha but a dark Alpha who leads the Rogues, the first in history.

"That’s enough, I don’t want you doing anything that would make you feel like you’re betraying your brother" I mean what I said, no matter how desperate I am right now.

She cleared her throat. "You stink, you should take a bath you’re covered in dirt and blood" She animatedly wrinkled her nose in disgust but I knew it was the complete opposite. I chuckled.

"Yeah I need a bath"

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I allowed the cold warm water to hit directly on my hair, washing the dirt and blood off. I placed my hand on the tiles and buried myself more in the raging shower, briefly allowing myself not to think and just... I don’t know... feel relaxed? I have forgotten how that felt like and I knew it was because of Emilia, she makes me let my guard down and my guard is always up, living with a house full of vampires will do that to you. But right now I just focused on the warm water against my skin, but my mind kept drifting.

There was a cell I passed, a werelion within it with broken arms and it got me thinking. Even though it was brief, I talked with him.

"An Alpha never hurts his Pride I heard"

He chuckled. "Well I am an exception"

"Let me guess you didn’t follow orders"

His smile instantly fades. "No, I tried to save my Alpha from being bewitched"

"Bewitched"

"He’s obsessed with this Countess... even I know that is not a good thing, it’s never good when he’s obsessed"

I made my escape after that and no one needed to tell me what he meant because I knew what it MEANS for Emma. If I don’t tread carefully Dace will hurt Emma to the point of no return. She’s still dealing with her past, she won’t put in so much of a fight, she can’t fight him. He has a great hold on her emotionally and he doesn’t know it... if he does he might use it against her.

I flipped the faucet off, grabbed a towel, and wrapped it around my waist, the moment I turned I stopped in my tracks.

"Hey," Emilia said with only a towel wrapped around her, hiding what I wanted so badly to see.

"Hey," I answered right back, having lost for any other words, appreciating what was right in front of me.

"You done? I need a bath myself" she said with a small smile crossing her lips.

"Yeah"

She nodded but said nothing else and I didn’t move from my position, nor gave way for her to have her shower.

"Maybe I should have joined you, but it seems like you needed the space," she said, leveling her gaze. "Your shoulders weren’t tense like they were a moment ago, and you didn’t feel threatened"

"I’m here with you, why should I feel threatened?"

She raised her gaze back to mine. "You don’t?" a hopeful tone. I knew in the past that was my major camouflage, I was bred to hate monsters or any supernatural that posed a threat to humanity, that was my daily mantle I wore with pride but then it became my biggest flaw because I was not so different. I was always the very monster I hated and not only did that change me it made me feel different.

All those times Emilia constantly brought it up about it being an obstacle I never really understood... I thought she only said that to get on my nerves but she genuinely felt scared that it was only how I would see her and not what she actually is.

A fucking hell to my life... the GOOD kind of hell, one I don’t want to walk away from. I want to dance around her hellish flames and embody every part. Even if just once... I will let her know that she deserves that much.

"Yes," I spoke the word as I ate up the space between us. She searched my eyes for something, I don’t know what... maybe the truth but I will never lie to her and she knows this. Right now she stared at me with so many emotions, dragging everything to the surface.

"I need my bath," she whispers.

"Is that what you want right now?"

"Yes?" she said letting the towel slip off her delicate body.

I inhaled. "Are you sure?"

"What makes you think that I’m not sure?" She rounded me and I did too. Not breaking gaze.

"Because your eyes say differently" I controlled the situation as I pinned her to the drawer behind her.