Alex made Zoey take a seat as he cooked for her and she watched. Alex tried to fry eggs but the egg fell on his clothes. Zoey chuckled.
"What are you laughing about?", Alex pouted.
"Let me do the breakfast, you're making a mess here.", Zoey stated as she got up from her seat and to the kitchen island.
She cracked the eggs and put them o the frying pan with no struggle and Alex tilted his head as he gazed at her intensely.
"What?", Zoey asked as she started to laugh in confusion.
"If I'd tell you, you'd feel more uncomfortable than you already are.", Alex said. "Why don't you go and freshen up, I'll take care of the eggs.", Alex changed the subject quickly.
"Okay, but I'm a bit worried about the eggs, are you sure you won't burn them?", Zoey questioned with a skeptical look on her face.
"Trust me, they're safe with papa.", Alex laughed as he winked at Zoey.
Zoey opened her clothes and went into the shower, she let the water pour down on her back.
' "Three months ago...we had our first child.", Zoey stated as she burst out in tears. "And...and..."
Alex's eyes widened but he held her tight in his arms and comforted her.
"Shh...It's okay don't worry, you got this, and let's deal with this together. Okay?", he said as he ran his fingers through her hair.'
Her head tilted in confusion.
(Did I have a child....?), Zoey thought to herself as her hand ran over her stomach in confusion.
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"So what questions do you need to be answered?", Alex questioned as he put his fork and knife down.
Alex sat at the head of the table and Zoey sat next to Alex on the right-hand side. Zoey swallowed her spit and thought carefully about what she wanted to ask and how she was going to ask him.
"First, how did we meet? Second, did we have a child? Third, were we really in love...? And finally...what am I?", Zoey asked all in one breath.
"First, I got attracted to your scent while I was searching for the right blood wine, which was actually Queen Mary's blood, but I didn't know at that time that you had it all along. I got you to stay here because we signed a contract, that you would be staying here."
"That's a bit dumb, don't you think?", Zoey laughed.
"Thinking about it now....it was quite stupid and embarrassing.", Alex burst out in laughter. "Second....We did....but you had a miscarriage when you had to run away.", Alex stated as he used a napkin to wipe the corners of his mouth.
"Oh...", Zoey's voice trailed off.
"Are you okay?", Alex asked as he placed his hand over Zoey's and massaged it gently.
Zoey nodded.
"Do you still want me to continue? If you can't make it, I'll stop.", Alex stated.
"No, I want to hear everything.", Zoey stated.
Alex nodded before continuing.
"Third, Even though we spent so much time together, I never told you that I slowly fell for you. I was able to read all of your thoughts, but I never told you. There are so much of things I regret that I didn't tell you. But from what I know, you were in love with me as much as I still love you.", Alex said.
"And lastly, I think you are back to a normal human, we had a blood bond in the past, but it got broken when you had Sabrina's or Jazz's blood in you."
"How is it possible that I heal quickly?", Zoey asked.
"What do you mean, 'heal quickly' ?", Alex questioned and his eyebrows furrowed.
Zoey cut herself with a knife and Alex quickly took a new napkin and wrapped it around her palm.
"What are you trying to do!", Alex scolded Zoey.
"Calm down.", Zoey laughed as she pulled away the napkin.
Alex's eyes widened.
"That's impossible.", Alex muttered.
"That's not it. My senses have been spiked up.", Zoey stated, just then she turned her head and she caught a fly with her index finger and thumb she cringed and so did Alex, she let it go. "My body kept regretting Jazz's blood at first.", Zoey stated and shrugged it off.
"That's a very rare case....but I think that means that your heart still had vampire blood that got mixed with your sister's blood. That means we can redo the blood bond again.", Alex stated.
"No.", Zoey said immediately.
"Why? What's wrong?", Alex asked as Zoey pulled her hand away from his grasp.
"This all...it's all new to me and nothing makes sense anymore.", Zoey said as she pulled on the sleeves of Alex's black sweater.
"What do you mean?", Alex asked softly.
"Edward tells me that I should kill you, and we were a husband and wife, but now these new memories pop up and I don't know what to say or expect anymore. I feel like a weapon with no use.", Zoey said.
"Wait...Edward said that you were married to him?", Alex scoffed.
"Yes, he said that you managed to separate us and he said that you killed my mother.", Zoey answered him.
"Wow....that's really low of him.", Alex said as he pinched the bridge of your nose.
"Don't say that about him!", Zoey yelled at Alex.
"Seriously Zoey? You're siding with a guy who acts like a pathetic lovesick puppy, just because he couldn't have his own ways with someone else's fiance! He is the reason why we can never be together!", Alex yelled at Zoey. "You're defending a criminal!"
"What do you want me to do? Believe you and fall for you? How the hell do you expect me to fall for my own enemy? You killed my mother for crying out loud!", Zoey yelled back at him and stood up. "I'm supposed to be here to kill you but I can't even do so!"
"I wasn't the one who killed your mother! It was your...", Alex stopped quickly.
"What?", Zoey asked and her eyebrows scrunched up together.
"It's not in my place to tell you. If you want to know, why don't you go and ask your father?", Alex asked.
"What does that suppose to mean?", Zoey pushed further into the matter.
"Come with me.", Alex stated as he got up from his seat and started to walk away.
Zoey followed him into the library he pulled a book forward and pressed it back into the shelf and the shelves started to separate as the walls started to move away from each other. Zoey followed him into a dark passage, each candle came on as he stepped further and further. They walked into another room and it lit up.
"Where are we?", Zoey asked in confusion.
Alex didn't answer her. Instead, he pulled out a file and slid it across the table that was in the middle of the room. Zoey gave him a skeptical look before picking up the file and opening it. Her eyes widened and she kept flipping through the pages that were in the file.
"This....it's impossible....", Zoey muttered under her breath as she picked up one photograph.
Zoey looked at the photograph in confusion as she saw her father with blood on his face, walking away from Zoey's mother.
"That's not it.", Alex stated as he opened a laptop and showed her something else.
The camera footage played, Leo, talking to Zoey's mother, Marianna before he took a golden knife and stabbed her in a back alley. The next camera footage played, and she watched as Leo had Edward up against the wall, after they had some kind of debate, Edward walked away and the wall behind him had the name, Emmerson.
"What's Emmerson?", Zoey asked Alex as she handed him the laptop back. "And why is my father there? How does he even know Eddie?", Zoey asked.
"Your step-father...secretly ran a program under his real name to kill people like you and me. He is Leo Emmerson, and when you were in a car accident, your last name did not appear on the system as Griffin or Smith, instead, it appeared as Zoey Emmerson. That's why we had a hard time finding you, after Damien and I found the video, we realized what was going on.", Alex said. "He knows Edward because he is the one that chased him to the states because you confessed to him when you were younger."
"Your mother, Marianna, married your step-father, trusting that he would take care of you, and when he found out what happened, he didn't like it.", Alex said.
"M-my father....that's impossible...", Zoey muttered under her breath. "What am I saying...he's not even my real father...", Zoey laughed wryly.
"What you want to do is up to you. I'm not going to force you into anything. But there's only so much I can take, which means, that if you double-cross me or even side with them, I will not hesitate to take you down with them.", Alex stated as he walked to her. "My love for you isn't an excuse for the wrong that is happening to our race."
"I can't promise you much, because I'm only fighting for myself, no one else.", Zoey stated. "I start to remember everything now. Especially with the way we had to run away."
"I'm glad, but what happened to the Midknight Owl who fought for those who couldn't fight for themselves.", Alex asked.
"She's not there anymore. Only a bloodthirsty killer is left behind.", Zoey stated as her eyes shone dark red.