BLOOD LEGACIES
Chapter 474: I’m Here

Chapter 474: I’m Here

EMMA

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The overwhelming sensation of pleasure left me paralyzed against the island. My body convulaing with aftershocks. My breathing ragged as I struggled to regain myself after reaching the edge multiple times.

I gripped the edge of the surface for support as I felt Dace’s thrusts, slow and firm, causing goosebumps to my skin as if he was trying to imprint within me and I welcomed every single thrust he offered as he branded himself within me.

I mentally prayed he would pick up the pace and give me the release my body desperately needed.

His scent drowned my sense, my arousal heightened as our connection filled me.

The desire in the air mingling with his heat, every breath I took I could smell all of him until the rest of the word zoned out.

In that moment, I think we hit a supernatural time pause. It was an extraordinary feeling.

I licked my lips, trying to steady my erratic breathing and maintain some control but it was hard to stop all the sensation storming my body.

I was close now, also at my release and just when I thought I might reach it, his movements halted.

"Dace," I whimpered, bitting my bottom lip as I instinctively rolled my hips, craving more of him.

I was so close and I didn’t want it to stop. Not yet, not when I needed him more than ever.

Dace’s firm hold on my hips stopped my movements, his grip going rigid and his nails digging into my skin and snapping me out of my arousal.

"Dace?" I said shakily.

With a worried expression I looked over my shoulder and froze when I set my eyes on him.

Dace remained motionless, his gaze blank and distant, his face paled and contoured in whatever horror had drowned him.

My breath hitched as I called his name again but no response.

I couldn’t move even if I wanted to, because his hands still kept me in place and his cock was buried inside me.

But I needed to pull him out.

"Dace," I voiced once more, desperate and begging.

But he was still stuck in his head, there was nothing else I could do expect thrust back against his cock hoping to snap him out of his reverie.

I moaned, repeating the action over and over again in hopes to pull him out.

"I’m here, Dace," I repeated, tilting my head to meet his gaze. "Can you feel me?" I murmured as I pressed my cheek against the cold surface beneath me.

"Please, listen to my voice. Whatever you’re seeing, it’s not real. Focus on me," I urged, my pulse racing with the effort of reaching him as well as my body trying to stop the quakes of pleasure.

"Dace, please"

Suddenly I felt his hands twitching. And I turned to him again and relief found me when I saw the light returning to his eyes.

But the moment they came back up he pulled away from me.

My heart sank as I pushed away from the island, using it for support. Despite the weakness in my legs, I was desperate to get to him.

He needed me more than ever and I’ll crawl if I have to.

As Dace sat on the floor, his hands buried in his hair. I crawled to him and gently moved his hands away to meet his gaze, but he refused to look at me. "It’s okay, I’m here," I assured him softly, my heart aching at the sight of him like this.

"I’m not hurt, I’m fine." I knew exactly what weighed his mind and I was eager to pull him away from it.

I was here and that was all that matters... nothing else.

"Are you?" he countered, pinning me with his gaze. "I saw it," he confessed with a shaky breath. "I saw what I did, Emma," he continued, his voice trembling as he traced the uneven skin of my stomach with trembling hands.

Regret, pain and anger blossomed in his eyes.

I felt his tears fall, and I couldn’t bear to witness him unraveling like this. "Please," I whispered, taking his hand in mine.

He’s drowning in pain and I hate to admit that there is not much I can do to ease him, he’s breaking and I’m the cause of it.

"You may have lived with this, Emma," he began, his bloodshot eyes locking with mine, "But I can’t."

"I was alone," I began, my voice cracking with emotion. "But it shouldn’t be like that anymore, because now we have each other... isn’t that enough?"

We both don’t have to go through this alone just like I did when I was gone. But now it’s different, we’re each other’s anchors. We together again, something I thought wouldn’t be possible.

But here we are now... and I wasn’t gonna let this go.

He closed his eyes, resting his head back against the surface. "It is," he admitted softly, "But it doesn’t change what I did," he murmured the last bit consumed by whatever was playing in his head.

"I should’ve stayed. I should’ve made an effort to reach out to you somehow. But I was so lost, and I convinced myself it was better for you not to remember me, better for you to forget everything, leaving me to bear the burden alone," I voiced, shaking my head.

"I was mistaken, Dace. I did try. And truth be told, I’ve never truly lived with it. Even now, the pain is there because of the mistake I made, and..."

He engulfed me in his embrace before I could utter another word, burying his face in my neck. I responded instinctively, wrapping my arms around him and pulled him closer

He shook against me as I held him through it. And in return he held me tighter, almost crushing me but I didn’t care, none of it matter. As long as he held me and knew I was okay and right here with him.

No longer far away.

No more in the dark waters.

But here with him, in his arms.

It was all I could ever ask for.