parentshiftbook Chapter 433 - A Touching Reunion
Chapter 433 - A Touching Reunion
He felt tears running down his shirt as they tightly held against one another.
For Aiden, it had only been one year since they had been apart, but for Emma, it had been five years.
She had thought that she had lost him...but he was here. Right in front of her, she could smell him, touch him...kiss him.
Emma had missed his presence for so long. She had tried to act strong in front of the others within her organization because she needed to. But...this was different. She cried in front of everyone around her. She didn't care anymore.
Aiden had arrived and would be the one to put an end to all this.
She had respected everything that he had told her before leaving. She had managed to gather allies and spies for him; she had waited for him while the Nightshades closed in on them.
But, now...after all this time, the weight that was on her shoulders finally vanished as soon as she saw him.
"Y-You're finally here..."
She struggled to align two words as she cried.
Aiden continued to reassure her as he patted the back of her head.
"I'm here...I'm here," he tenderly repeated.
He could feel the glares from everyone around him as he hugged her. However, he didn't care. Emma deserved that much.
Aiden had no idea how much she had gone through, but she had suffered a lot more than Aiden in the past five years.
Just with a quick look at her, Aiden could tell just how much she had grown over the past years. She was no longer this innocent-looking girl. She had trained and suffered a lot over the past years.
Aiden's fingers caressed her back, and he could feel huge scars, which made him frown.
"Who made those scars on your back?" Aiden asked out of nowhere.
Emma knew that tone in his voice, and she didn't want to tell him. She knew what would happen if she were to tell him. He would get mad, and he would immediately try to avenge her.
"C-Can't this wait...I just want to spend a day with you. I don't want to think about the war for today. That's all I ask, just one day with you."
The early morning quickly came, and their touching reunion came to an end as Aiden heard knocks on Emma's door.
"Hey, you two love birds, get out of there; we need to get moving!"
Aiden didn't quite recognize that voice, but it did seem familiar for some reason.
Nevertheless, he headed for the door with a frown as Emma was still barely waking up.
She wasn't wearing anything, but there were the bed sheets covering her body.
Aiden opened the door, and his eyes widened when he saw who was on the other side of it. One of his previous mentors...someone who had helped him and made him what the real was like.
It was Jake, who hadn't aged one bit, with his little smirk.
"I guess you really returned, huh? And here I thought that you had abandoned us."
Aiden was surprised to see Jake helping them since he was the kind of person who was alone. However, it seemed Emma had managed to convince him.
Jake kept staring at him and nodded. "I guess those years of training didn't go to waste. You're just a little weaker than me now."
Aiden laughed at him. "As if. You wouldn't be able to touch me if you tried. You haven't seen anything yet."
Jake frowned at those words as he really thought what he had just mentioned. But what Jake ignored was Aiden's Demonic Form, which made him 20 times stronger.
If he were to go in that form, no one in this world would be able to rival him. He had also learned magic, amongst other things. What he was seeing right now was very far away from his true potential.
Still, Aiden shook his head as it sounded important why Jake had come knocking on their door.
"So, why are you here?"
"Well, isn't it obvious? Every high-ranking officer has arrived, and it's time to prepare our plan to take over the Nightshade's Territory."
Aiden smirked.
He couldn't wait to see what those officers were like.