Claimed By My Husband's Enemy novel Chapter 189

Chapter 189

(Ari)

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The beast was more honest than the man. The dragon pressed his face against my hand, showing me things, making me feel his emotions, confessing to me Laurent’s secrets including his thoughts with each encounter I had with him.

Including the fact that my godfather, damn him, put me into the academy where his ex-wife ruled. What in the three realms was he thinking by sending me to his rival’s territory?

Slowly, my hands moved before I could stop them, caressing the dragon’s face. His gorgeous scales shone brighter than my future.

If Laurent was going to be the king of evil and madness, he should have done it consistently. Otherwise, I couldn’t resent him as much as I wanted.

Seeing his memories cleared the misunderstandings between us. It made me realize that I, too, had no right to condemn the man when I hadn’t been honest about myself from the beginning.

But there was too much agony and mistrust between us, and this wouldn’t simply erase all that.

I pressed my forehead against the dragon’s scale. “Thank you for doing this.”

Aidan and Sebastian had different ways of making me feel seen, heard, and felt, they had unique ways of making me feel important. Even Laurent. Today, with his wings wrapped protectively around me, I get to reclaim the self-worth that I lost while staying with the wrong pack.

My wolf and the omega within me had also stopped crying for once. That was progress itself.

“But I’m still hurt,” I also confessed. “And I’m going to need some time.”

The man in him nodded. “Take as much time as you need.”

I wrapped my arms around the dragon. It was easier when he was a beast because I didn’t think I could do this with the human version yet. I took a step back. His wings released me. I turned my back on him before I could change my mind and felt him watch me as I walked away.

It wasn’t just him though. All our audience watched me walk away from the dragon who didn’t leave until I was out of his sight. I passed by Nero and my classmates who looked at me like I was an apparition. I ran before they could follow me and ambush me with their questions which I couldn’t answer anyway.

I only saw the dragon ascend when I was back in my hideout. I saw him fly magnificently in the sky. If only we met in a different circumstance, if I met all of my mates in another time and place, when my dad was still alive, without the House of Lemadon in the equation, when I was still whole and didn’t have the hideous scars in my back, didn’t have the memories that haunted me day and night, I wouldn’t have had to walk away from any of them.

When the dragon flew, I would have been there with him, enjoying the night sky. I would have been with Aidan and Sebastian without reservations. When the night came, none of us would have had to spend it alone.

I wasn’t blind. I was capable. I knew what I could bring to the table. I knew I was enough for any alpha. If they could look past my scars, maybe I could finally allow myself to dream of a future with them, but the past years had made me realistic My eyes were wide open. I was enough for anyone but for the three of them? For alphas with their caliber?

If only my dad was here with me, if only I had someone I could confide in, someone I could trust with my secrets, maybe I wouldn’t have been this confused.

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1:57 pm

Chapter 189

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I leaned against the tree. “Dad… why did you have to leave me so soon?”

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That was my annual question. He must have been fed up hearing me complain every year. I wiped my tears away when I sensed someone approaching. In this case, it was a massive wolf with black and crimson fur, charging at me at full speed.

It was a wolf I hadn’t seen before but for some reason, I didn’t feel scared. Its tail wagged like it was truly happy to see me. Something about it felt oddly familiar. My arms automatically spread open as he ran into my arms and licked me on the cheek, making me smile.

The wolf was like a friend I didn’t know I was missing until today.

“Good thing I brought him along.”

I looked up when I heard that voice. I was greeted by the face of an alpha who looked like he was in his early forties. His stormy gray eyes were full of something I couldn’t quite explain as he stared at me. It was as if he walked out from some really extravagant party with his three-piece dark suit and leather shoes.

He didn’t belong in my hideout. He looked extremely expensive from head to toe. He was dashing too. In fact, he was the most dashing older alpha I’d seen. Women must have been flocking to him wherever he went.

“Hello there.” He cleared his throat. “Do you mind if I… sit beside you?”

1 frowned.

Did his voice just buckle?

I nodded.

I was supposed to leave. I didn’t do well around strangers. But the wolf was curled around my lap comfortably, still licking my hand happily. I didn’t know how, but the wolf didn’t seem to have a human within him, it was like it was a separate entity. The most surprising part was that it seemed to know me. Besides, my own wolf was making a sound I couldn’t understand.

Why was it howling?

Why was my omega crying all over again?

And why did I feel like crying too?

The man sat on the opposite side of the tree I was leaning against. He looked up at the sky. His tattooed hands slightly trembled as he uttered, “Fuck.”

I could only agree. For years, I also looked at the same sky and muttered the same word. Seconds later, I was shocked when I saw a tear rolling down his cheek.

I looked away. What was it about this day? I thought this would begin and end with me grieving dad. But then I ended up grieving for our home as well. And then there was the call from an older woman about her missing daughter, Laurent shifting in his dragon form, and then this.

I was about to get up to give him some privacy when I heard his voice, “No. Don’t leave. Stay. Please”

I found myself doing exactly that.

“I noticed you from afar,” he started. “You looked sad. Can I ask why?”

“I just have too many things in my mind right now. And I’m also missing my dad. It’s his death anniversary today”

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1:58 pm

Chapter 189

I wasn’t normally talkative like this but I couldn’t stop my mouth today.

“When did he die?”

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