Their Darkest Light

29: Alive?

A M E L L I A

But, wait, Eve's alive?

"Eve, she's alive?" I asked.

Gerald looked at me confusion visible in his eyes.

"Yeah, of course she is. She's been Raven's best weapon and pet, he would never let her die." Gerald who still looked confused explained.

"T-Then that incident? It was planned? The fight? The broken plates? Eve was all in it? She didn't die?" I feel something inside me, I don't know what it is, I just feel my tummy turning upside down.

Gerald looked at me worried.

"She's having an anxiety attack." Gerald's worried voice echoed through my ear as everything went black.

A L E C X A N D R E I

Amellia passed out, fortunately I caught her before she hit the floor.

"Bring her to her room. I'll get my medical kit." Lorenz said.

Like what Lorenz said, I carried Amellia to her room, our family followed.

I gently laid her on her bed, Dad, Grandpa, Gerald, Lorenz, Enzo, and our Uncles and Aunts are inside the room while our cousins and other brothers stayed outside, guarding, and making sure that everything inside the house is alright. Nothing like what happened to dad should happen again.

Lorenz checked her and it was indeed an anxiety attack, she was already panicking when she heard that Evelea was alive, she was already shaking. No one stopped her, we were just ready to catch her if she fell. No one will be able to stop her, she won't listen, at a panicking point it's impossible for someone to listen to anyone.

"It's better to let her sleep for a while." Lorenz suggested. We all agreed and left the room, I was last to leave, I made sure that I opened her lamp before leaving.

We all proceeded to go downstairs, well most of us. Xavier, Xander, Xandrix, and Xendric decided to stay near our Bambina's room just incase she need anything or if she panics.

"We need to know everything you know, Gerald." I said as soon as we sat down.

"Yes, of course. This is based on what Raven was planning before. His plan was simple, annihilate the whole Hara and Ruscov family so that he could take over the mafia and yakuza. He took Amellia, not for bait, but to make her his wife once she turns 18." Everyone almost snapped their heads when they heard that.

"His WIFE? Un dannato maniaco pedofilo!" Dad said with such anger.

(Trans: A damn pedophile maniac!)

I looked at Gerald, "That simple? That was all his plan?" I asked.

Gerald looked me in the eye before sighing.

"That was his plan after Fian died. His original plan is to kill all of you and force Fian to marry him. Before we even got adopted, they would bring Fian with them at the orphanage, they often go there to give out toys and foods for us. When Raven saw her, that's when he started being nice and clingy to our adopted parents. I didn't know that he was attracted to her at first, all I know is that he tried to..." Gerald stopped as if a cat bit his tongue. He looked like he's going to cry any moment now.

I could see how he gulped all those saliva down his throat before finally saying the horrifying truth that I wished I never heard.

"He tried to rape her. That incident caused the huge crack in this whole family. Our adopted parents wouldn't believe a word that she said, they believed that Raven wouldn't do such a thing. I also did, Raven was my brother, and I'd known him my whole life, he was the only family left to me. It was when he tried to kill me that he told me everything. It was then that he admitted every little crime he did."