Chapter 186 - Darkness Coming

"What day is that?" Elias asked pointedly.

His mother moved to stand in front of the group, leading her husband along with her.

"Elias, please. Just hear us out," she said gently.

Elias looked over at Melina.

"So, it's true. She's my twin sister that you never thought to tell me about," he said, his voice growing sharper by the second.

He could feel shock and frustration clash, making his volume heighten uncontrollably. He didn't want to believe this.

"Watch your tone around your mother," his father replied sternly. His shoulders then dropped slightly. "Yes, Melina is your sister."

"Got any proof?" Elias asked, figuring he should ask for that before rolling with this ridiculous scenario that was his life.

After more than twenty years, he was just now finding out that he shared a womb with someone that he hadn't met until now.

His mother nodded quietly before approaching a wooden cabinet near the television stand. She opened the doors and reached inside to pull out a dusty scrapbook.

She wiped the dust off before opening it and handing it over to Elias.

Elias looked down at the pictures, feeling his heart stop. There were pictures of two babies in his parents' arms.

They looked exactly the same, and their names were written under the pictures: Elias and Melina.

At around age two, there was only one baby left that was him. He closed the scrapbook and handed it back quietly.

"I only came to him because I'm starting to get nervous. A bad feeling keeps following me," Melina told Nora and Daniel.

Nora looked at her daughter and nodded.

"I feared as much. I feel something dark too," she replied.

Elias put his face in his hands briefly, trying to soak all of this information in without exploding. He had a twin sister. His parents lied to him for years.

"That's insane," he managed to breathe out.

"That's the truth, Elias.Your sister's power is a threat to evil forces. You and her are the last surviving member of our family who possesses this power and they won't stop until both of you are dead.

That's why your grandfather created the vampires to protect us. Once the war starts, we will summoned them and they will be under your command"

Daniel said as he looked between Elias and Melina.

"What the hell?" Elias sighed as he shook his head. He was finding out too much. It was too much right now.

Alyssa rubbed his back.

"Maybe we can continue this conversation tomorrow. We should sleep on this," she suggested, noticing that even Melina looked shocked at the new information.

"You two can take the bedroom you had last time," Nora said before turning to Scott, who had been surprisingly quiet. "You need to pay your mother a visit. She's worried sick."

Scott grumbled but nodded.

"I'll go see her," he said before glancing at Elias. "Don't have a mental break."

"Just go, Scott," Melina sighed, sounding agitated. "Leave him alone."

Scott scoffed and walked out of the living room, shutting the front door behind him as he exited.

Elias glanced at Melina, but he didn't say anything. Maybe they were family, but he didn't know her.

She was still a stranger to him. He took Alyssa's hand, letting her lead him to his old bedroom away from everyone. He didn't even know what to say to her.

Alyssa shut the bedroom door behind them, turning to watch him collapse on his bed.

"Are you okay?" she asked him as she moved to lay beside him, placing her hand on his chest and riding out the slow lifts and falls.

"I haven't been okay since Melina showed up," Elias admitted. His world had been flipped completely upside down, and he had no idea how to level himself out.

"At least she's nice. She could be some sort of monster," Alyssa pointed out, trying to expose the silver lining.

"Evidently, we are monsters since our grandfather is the Devil," Elias muttered. He felt tainted now, like he was infected with evil. It made his skin crawl.

Maybe that was why his parents kept such a close eye on him.. They feared that he would act like his grandfather and wreak havoc and chaos.