Claimed By My Husband's Enemy novel Chapter 54

Chapter 54

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“Are your pack brothers still looking for her?” I asked while catching my breath. For someone injured, Creed’s stamina was unbelievable. I couldn’t remember how many times we did it. I’d lost count after the fourth round.

I was lying on top of Creed; he hadn’t pulled out yet. And I realized I liked it. Being full of him. Being one with him. My breasts were pressed against his solid chest while his hand lazily played with the strands of my hair, the other was stroking my back in a way that ease my worries about the future.

“Yes,” Creed answered. “We are not going to stop until your mother is with you again, Vicious.”

“It’s alright. You can stop the search operation now. My mom is okay. She’s out of coma. I just found out yesterday.”

I expected to be bulldozed by questions. Several of them. I’d forgotten that Creed was not like the men I encountered.

“I’m glad she is okay. That’s good news. Let’s celebrate later. Is there anything you want to eat?”

“You’re not going to ask me anything?”

“If you want to share, I will listen, Elianna. If not, I will respect it.”

With only a few words, Creed reminded me again that right now, I was with a man and not with a boy. He understood my boundaries and valued it. I pressed my lips against his chest. “Thank you.”

After some time, I giggled. Who would have thought that a time like this would happen, when we could talk to each other like two sane people? Without the sarcasm? Without antagonizing each other?

“Mom wants to get me out of here, Black. She’s… different from most mothers. She gets scared easily, that’s why she tries to avoid complications, people, and situations that threaten her peace of mind.” I sighed. “And somehow, she learned about werewolves. Now that I think about it, maybe she had a very dreadful encounter with a werewolf for her to be like that, for her to say those words.”

“Are you referring to the advice about you not trusting the likes of me?”

“Yeah. And I don’t know what to do.”

I hadn’t allowed myself to be vulnerable enough to admit something like this before.

“That’s normal. You will figure it out.”

“And how do you know that?”

I raised my head and captured his gaze.

He grinned. “The Vicious I know has a strange way of figuring things out.”

“What if my decision ends up disappointing you? What if it ends up with me… leaving you?”

His grip around me tightened. “Are you going to leave me, Elianna?”

My mom has always been my priority. She was the one I would always choose in the past.

Then Creed came.

And now, I had no idea,

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He lifted my chin. “You know, Lizbeth once asked ine why I insisted on bringing you here even if I knew that it was impossible to mark you because you are human.”

“What did you tell her?”

“I did not answer her. At that time, I could not admit even to myself that when I saw you for the first time, I knew in an instant that I belonged to you. I wanted to make it even that’s why I made a deal with Richards so you could belong to me too. I did not want you anywhere else, Vicious. Seeing you look like that at the party nearly sent me on a rampage.”

“Look like what?”

I tried to remember what I was wearing at the gala. Right. I was in my long red gown which exposed my curves. It was the most expensive gown I wore. Even Landon, who had seen me in gowns many times before, still looked pretty dazzled that night. I nodded to myself. I must have done a good job that night. I must have really made quite an impression-

“You look like you were trying too hard not to cry.”

I blinked, too stunned to speak.

What did he just say?

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“Alpha shifters live by codes, Elianna. We don’t mess with married women whether they are our mates or not,” Creed added upon seeing the confusion in my eyes. “Had I seen you happy with the mortal, I was willing to spare him from my wrath no matter how badly it would gut me. But then you looked at him, and I saw the grief in your eyes. I knew I just had to take you and punish him more than he deserved for making you feel that way.”

Creed saw me since the first day we met, really saw me through the pretenses, through the mask I carefully crafted, the one I thought I’d perfected throughout the years. Because no one was able to do it. Not even my family who was supposed to stand by me.

Aside from my mom, no one else cared enough to see how badly I needed help, how much I was dying inside.

My eyes watered. “You saw me.”

“Always, Vicious.”

The next thing I remembered was what came after he brought me here. “Then why did you do all that? You bullied me!”

“Close your eyes and look back, Elianna. Is it truly considered bullying if it distracted you from your suicidal thoughts? If it brought out the vicious in you? I did not bring Richard’s wife into my territory.” Creed’s gaze darkened. “I did not bring home Elianna Richards, his puppet of a wife, his perfect but docile and lifeless doll. I brought my mate with me. I brought Eli Dawson, imperfect but real.

“Lively, naughty, wicked, a bit of a troublemaker, a source of severe headache at times, a gold lover, an incredibly infuriating and frustrating woman…” I bit his lower lip, making him smile. “But a real rainbow to my twisted gray world. It was all gray before you, Vicious. It was like that for a hundred years. And then one by one, every single day, you introduced me to the colors.”

I knew he meant every word with every cell in his body. I felt Creed’s sincerity. Maybe it was because of the invisible bond tying us both.

“How?”

“Through your smiles, your moods. Are you aware that you dress according to your mood? When you are happy, it’s yellow. When you are calm, it’s blue. When you are in heat, it’s the color of a wildfire. Pink when you are shy. But the colors fade, you take them with you when you are in pain. That’s why I try not to make you feel that way again.” Creed brushed the tears sliding down my cheeks. “Who would want to go back to living in gray after seeing that many colors?”

Me too.

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I was so sick and tired of gray.

Creed sat on the bed, bringing me along with him. He leaned against the headboard and stared at me with open devotion, with obsession, with need. I could feel him pulsing inside me. When Lizbeth told me that fated mates were half of each other, I did not believe her. Here was her brother, making me believe in it at three in the morning, making me feel seen.. and found.

When Creed reached for my mouth, I closed my eyes.

‘Mom, forgive me. I tried not to fall. I really did. But with this man, it was simply impossible.’

“Ask me again about this house, Creed. Ask me where I am,” I whispered as I opened my eyes and met his.

“Where are you right now, Eli?” he indulged me even if he already knew the answer.

Those dazzling dark irises smiled along with his lips.

Because I’d just torn down the last wall standing between us by calling his name. And he was doing the same.

“Home. I think I’m finally home, Creed.”

“Yes, you are.” He kissed me deeply. Passionately. Wantonly. “Welcome home, Eli.”

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