Chapter 265 – True Luna Book Free: The Darkness Within

I ignored him completely. I looked behind him and saw my son and my daughter. Mason and Daisy were there too. All of them looked worried and afraid and my heart clenched painfully. I wished that I couldn’t reassure them and tell them that everything was going to be okay. I wished that there was someone who would reassure me and tell me that everything was going to be okay.

“Why didn’t you sleep, Andrew?” I asked, looking back at him. “You look like shit.”

“I slept,” Andrew said quietly. “I am fine.”

Emma groaned painfully, making me look down at her.

“It’s okay, baby,” I said as I kissed her cheek. “I am here. You can do it.”

I looked back up and saw everyone staring at her. My daughter and Daisy were crying silently. Alex looked like he was going to be sick. Mason looked pissed. Andrew went visibly pale.

“She is worse,” Andrew mumbled and I could tell that he was on the verge of tears.

“She is going to be okay,” I said, tightening my arms around her. “She is so brave and so strong. She is going to be okay.”

I looked at her and kissed her forehead.

“You are going to be okay, Emma,” I told her. “You will come back to me.”

I had to keep repeating that. I had to keep saying that to myself. I would go crazy if I didn’t.

I heard the cabin door opening again and Anna walked inside. I looked up and saw her leaning against the wall and crossing her arms over her chest.

“Did you tell him?” she asked, making me furrow my eyebrows.

Did they tell me what?

“She is worse,” Andrew mumbled instead of answering her.

Did they tell me what?

“She is in the final stages of fighting Sienna,” Anna said calmly, making us all look at her. “She is going to be okay, I am sure of it. We need to tell him.”

“What do you mean final stage?”

“Tell me what?”

Andrew and I said at the same time.

Anna sighed and approached the window. She looked at Emma and smiled a little.

“She is going to be okay,” Anna said. “I am sure that she is winning. Did you talk to Leon?”

I gulped and shook my head. I couldn’t feel Leon for the last couple of hours. I was sure that he was with Eliza and I didn’t want to disturb him. I didn’t want him to lose his connection with her. We couldn’t lose Eliza.

“Try talking to him later,” Anna said, giving me a small smile. “I am sure that he knows something. He is probably with Eliza.”

I nodded. I wanted to talk to him immediately, but I also wanted to know what my family hadn’t told me.

“What didn’t they tell me, Anna?” I asked, glancing at Andrew.

He was staring at Emma with a mixture of fear and pain written on his face. He looked like he was going to be sick.

“We have a theory about the darkness,” Anna said, making me look back at her. “It was something that Sophie and I came up with.”

My heart raced. I looked at my daughter but the expression on her face didn’t give me much hope. Was there any hope?

It had to be! It fucking had to be!

I pressed Emma even closer to me. I couldn’t lose her. I couldn’t fucking lose her!

“I’m listening,” I mumbled, trying to swallow the lump in my throat.

I felt like I was going to suffocate.

“We believe that Emma will have to face the people who hurt her the most,” Anna said. “Sienna is just one of those people.”

I furrowed my eyebrows a little.

“Okay,” I mumbled. “What does that mean exactly? Will she have to face Rolf and Samuel too?”

My fists clenched involuntarily. Just thinking about her alone with them had me ready to destroy the room. I didn’t want her alone with them even if they were just some fucking ghosts of our past. I wanted to be there and protect her.

“I am not sure about that,” Anna said, shaking her head. “But I think that she will have to face someone else.”

I furrowed my eyebrows again. Who? Nathan?

“I think that she will have to face the part of you that rejected her,” Anna said quietly. “Maybe even the part of Andrew who sided with you.”

My heart stopped. I looked at Andrew and saw him staring at the ground with his jaw clenched tight.

“What?” I mumbled, pressing Emma even closer to me.

“It is our theory that Emma will have to face and kill the part of you that rejected her,” Anna said and my vision got blurry. “She will have to face that part of you and she will have to destroy it in order to completely destroy the darkness.”

My stomach turned.

I wanted to kill that part of me. I did kill that part of me a long time ago. I fucking hated him. I hated Logan who even for a second thought that Emma wasn’t good enough. He wasn’t a part of me anymore.

But he was me. He looked like me. He sounded like me. Would Emma be able to destroy him? Would she be able to kill a part of me?

Andrew’s POV

“He is dead,” Logan mumbled. “That part of me is dead. It is long gone. How is that possible?”

“Sienna is dead as well,” Anna said.

I closed my eyes and tried to take a deep breath. My whole body hurt like someone beat the shit out of me. I felt sick. I was scared. I was in both emotional and physical pain.

Would Emma really have to fight me? Would she have to see Andrew who hurt her? Would he talk to her? Would he say something hurtful to her? How would she react? Would she believe him? Would she believe his lies?

I hated that Andrew. I hated him with every fiber of my being. He hurt my sister. He hurt the only family I had at that moment.

Well, he didn’t hurt her. I did. But I liked to think that I wasn’t the same man as before. I liked to think that I destroyed that part of me. I liked to think that I made up for the mistake I made. I liked to think that Emma forgave me.

What if she woke up and hated me? What if seeing him reminded her of all the shit I did to her? What if she didn’t want me anymore?

I felt my throat close up. I felt tears burning the corners of my eyes. I felt my lungs clench, pushing the remaining air out. I felt my heart fall to the bottom of my chest. I felt my stomach turn.

What the fuck would I do if she woke up and hated me?

Daisy wrapped her arm around my waist and placed a small kiss on my upper arm.

Stop, Andrew. She mind-linked me. I can feel your emotions and I can guess what you are thinking. Stop it. She loves you, Andrew. She loves you so much and nothing will change that.

I looked at Daisy and she gave me a small smile. All the pain in my body lessened a bit.

I love you. I mind-linked her. I don’t know what I would do without you.

Her smile widened.

You will never know the answer to that question because I never plan on leaving you alone. She said and my heart skipped a beat.

I wrapped an arm around her shoulders and kissed the top of her head. I breathed her scent deeply and let it calm me down a little.

When I opened my eyes I saw Logan cupping Emma’s cheeks and telling her something quietly.

“It is just a theory, Dad,” Alex said, his voice laced with fear and anger. “It doesn’t have to be true.”

Logan looked at Alex and took a deep breath. He gave him a small nod and looked at Anna.

“How did you even come up with that theory?” he asked.

“I went back to the original books about the curse,” Anna started explaining. “I read that one of the reasons the witches chose that girl to be the first True Luna was also a rumor that was going on.”

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