Helanie:
"I don’t know what you all are accusing me of. Can somebody tell me what the fuck I did?" Emmet yelled as he finally grabbed his brother’s hands and pulled them off his collar, pushing him away.
That was when Maximus and Kaye decided to hold on to Norman so he wouldn’t attack Emmet again.
I didn’t know the confrontation would go this badly.
"You sacrificed my child for someone who was already dead because she didn’t listen to you that night and went out," Norman yelled, his eyes red with rage.
"Enough, just stop," I tried to stop Norman.
That was when Emmet gestured for me to step aside.
"No. Let me talk to my brother. Let him say what he has to say," Emmet warned me before looking back at Norman.
"Do you seriously think I would ever do anything to hurt you, to harm you, brother?" There was pain in Emmet’s voice, pain I was sure everyone could hear.
"It’s not about you hurting me. You didn’t even remember that time that I am your brother and she is Helanie," Norman grunted, finally freeing himself from his brothers, though he didn’t attack Emmet again. He began covering his face with his forearm, maybe even wiping away tears.
"Do you think I sacrificed your baby for her?" Emmet asked, pointing toward what was likely the guest room.
"We found the traces in your room, Emmet!" Norman yelled as he recalled the pages he had found, the ones with the scribbles.
"The pages?" Emmet screamed back.
"The pages where you said you had to sacrifice Helanie so Azura could come back—life for a life," Norman said word for word, and my body shook again.
At that point, I didn’t want to intervene. Norman had every right to be upset. It was his child too.
"Really? Is that why you were all acting weird around me? Why didn’t any of you tell me? Why did you guys let me walk around thinking, oh, maybe I did something wrong, maybe not. But all this time you were looking at me like I’m some fucking murderer!" Emmet screamed, pointing at his chest.
This was the first time I had seen Emmet lose his mind so badly, but then again, what he did was extremely wrong too.
"We’re not saying you did it in your right mind. We’re just saying you forgot about everyone. You only remembered Azura and the fact that you had to bring her back." Kaye hissed Emmet scanned all our faces.
"I think I would’ve remembered something like that," Emmet said, shaking his head.
"But you do forget. The only person you remember is Azura."
As soon as Kaye said that, I muttered, "And that’s because she cursed you, with a broken heart curse when she was dying,." I looked at Emmet, who now turned all his attention to me.
"Tell me, you really think I did it?" I felt my heart stop for a moment.
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