Chapter 29 - Better To Be Alone Than Being Betrayed

Those earnest eyes hid the immense pain inside it and showed enormous strength to end the enemies. Master Rotrigues couldn't bear to see his godchild suffering such pressure on her shoulders alone.

" This fight maybe yours, but I want to avenge my brother. We will together end that disgusting Agnartians. Child, you were left alone but now you have us now. Consider all Esbertrazians as your family, you don't need to fight alone " master sighed.

" Emmy, the master is correct. you shall never be alone anymore with us around you. Your enemies are ours too, so don't even think to face them singly. "

Juliet held her friend's hand firmly, Emmy gazed over her friends who were showering her with full support but her eyes got locked with Alex's.

" So let this be the final warning to the family clans of Vilmonark. Salian or Agnartic, Anyone…. I repeat, if anyone comes to hunt me down. I don't care about sending them back to hell."

Emmy remembered that caveat that she gave in her memories. It was not only the Agnartians, but the Salian people had also schemed against her family. Alex was the eldest Salian prince so if she had taken the name Salian in front of the master, he would have exploded his anger on Alex and Mike respectively.

While Emmy was lost in her own thoughts, Alex was thinking about the sword which she had mentioned being pierced to her father's body. He had seen it in someplace still he could not remember where.

Sometime later, Jordan saw Alex standing over the railings of the balcony facing the sea. He hesitated whether to confront his friend as the matter might push him, deeper into the emotional abyss. Jordan was still confused, over taking the decision when Alex saw him standing at the door anxiously.

" Buddy, speak your mind."

Jordan nervously took the journal from his pocket, it was like a hot potato but still, he pushed that hot potato towards his friend.

" You might need to look at this. We found it along with your pictures in a hidden trunk down the basement. Those pictures are safe with Mike, yesterday when we came to give it, you were keeping Emmy company and the master asked not to disturb you two."

Alex's heart was unusually calm, it didn't hurt like it used to hear about his beloved's name. Still while receiving the small journal, his hands were trembling and after Jordan gave him some time alone, he slowly opened the book to find elegant strokes of the beautiful handwriting. Her style of writing matched her character, sharp and attractive. He sat on the hammock and started to look through the entries she had made.

" I do not wish to live anymore, he played with my feelings. I should have listened to my brothers. "

" Never will I go back, how would I face them? Let him be happy there with his queen."

" I tried many ways to hate him but it's the love increasing."

The entries, in the beginning, had tear marks that blotched the writing but consecutively, it disappeared as the mood of the words also changed.

"Now I learned, it is better to be alone than being betrayed"

" Brother one is awesome, he knows to cheer me up."

" The crayfish was delicious, sis-in-law cooks the best."

" Emmy is so cute, I wish to live here where there is real love."

Alex read every page of the journal and his eyes teared up. He had smashed her hope for love, he had forgotten, that in a relationship, the most important thing was trust. Once it is broken, then no matter how hard we try, it is difficult to mend it. He should have made his plans clear to her then she wouldn't have misunderstood him.

Yes, he should have opened up his feelings to her at the correct time, instead, he waited for the situation to be safe. He realized that one must be honest with himself first, if he had confessed his feelings to her that day itself, then their child would have been born by now. Alex silently cried his heart out as he held the journal near his chest.

By the time the tears stopped, his eyes had become sucked out dry. He closed his swollen eyes to calm down his mind, however, two warm hands touched his eyelids. The warmth soothed both his burning eyes and mind.

After a few minutes, Alex opened his eyes to see Emmy beside him, he looked at the journal in his hands and gradually raised it in front of her.

" I know, it must be your lover's diary. Keep it safe, one day when you see her, make amends accordingly. I told you before, you don't need to feel guilty, you both loved each other but to ensure her safety, you didn't promise her your love. Once we find her, explain yourself properly."

" Alex, I came here to discuss another thing with you. Before, I mentioned that Agnartics were the ones who killed my parents but your family has also staged some help in this plot. I completely trust you but it doesn't mean to believe your whole family. I guess, some people of the Salian clan have been involved and let it be anyone, I will finish each one of them."

Alex never intended to bother about the Salian family but when Emmy said about the involvement of the Agnartic and Salian families in the clifftop manor incident, his brain suddenly worked up.

" Emmy, thank you for your trust in me. You mentioned a sword having a sun design, I knew that I had seen such a sword somewhere before, but my memory was not striking. Now I got it, the present wife of my father has the sword of the same design in her possession."

" Really, so it means what I saw was true.. There is a connection between the Salian and Agnartic family linking to my family's murder. Hey, but what did you mean by the present wife of your father?"