Claimed By My Husband's Enemy novel Chapter 75

Chapter 75

Chapter 75

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“I know you hate me, Elianna, especially after I locked you up in the attic. But if you hadn’t noticed yet, all those times it happened was after your heat. Back then, during your heat, you told me that you can feel your mate close by I was afraid that you’d come to him, that you’d find him and leave me. That’s why I resorted to that. But of course, you didn’t remember saying any of that.” Bitterness laced Landon’s tone. “It was always me who remembers. It wasn’t me who cheated first. Elianna. It was you.”

How was I supposed to respond to that? I didn’t know that it was me who ruined our marriage. Had I known that I would become like that during my heat, I wouldn’t have married him at all. I was not a good person, but had I known the truth. I wouldn’t have let myself be with any man. I wouldn’t deliberately insult them, break their hearts like that, and ruthlessly forget all about it the next day like nothing happened.

Should I blame my mom then for hiding my real identity from me? She should have told me something at least. It was my body. I should have somehow had an idea of who or what I became during the heat haze. Why did she keep it from me?

This time, I really wanted to be mad at my mother. Her secrets had only brought more chaos into our lives. I could have prevented this from happening had she trusted me with the truth from the very start. I could have been the obedient daughter she wanted me to be had I known. I wouldn’t have involved myself with any male humans.

I didn’t know that I’d been unconsciously searching for Creed all these years, that I’d been calling him during my heat, that he’d always been the wall that separated me and my husband all this time.

Landon ruined himself. He also hurt my mom. He had proven that he wasn’t like his father, in the beginning at least. It was me. I’d awoken his greed.

I understood the shifter’s point now. Landon had also proven that some humans could love completely to the point of madness. But humans and shifters were not supposed to meet. They were not supposed to be together because of the shifter’s needs that most humans could not provide.

Landon and I were the proof. Our love had become a tragedy.

“I didn’t do it deliberately. I didn’t know about ruts. I didn’t look into it at first. I was just eager to change myself so you wouldn’t have a reason to find your mate. That’s why when your heat and my rut finally aligned, I marked you. And when you marked me too, it was the happiest day of my life, Elianna.”

He blinked back the tears. I had never seen Landon this vulnerable before. But he was laying it all out in the open now. “I thought it was all worth it, that you finally accepted me. I thought my mark on your throat unbinds you from your real mate, that somehow, I’ve successfully replaced him with all my efforts.”

He didn’t. He must have known it by now. He must have heard the news.

In the end, none of us could escape fate. I still met my real mate. And as destined, Creed took an interest in me and took me away from Landon.

“I’m… sorry,” I answered instead and let him feel the sincerity in my voice, in my eyes. “I never meant to hurt you, Landon. I didn’t know all that.”

“Now you do.” Landon stood up. “And I’m sorry too, Elianna. Because I can’t give you up. I’ve already come this far. I will see this through until the end-”

“I’m pregnant.”

Pain flashed in his eyes. Why didn’t he let me see all this before?

“I heard. Had I known that Black was a werewolf, I would have found another way. Because I was confident that he was a

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human like me, I took his offer, believing that you will fight him in every way like you did to me.” His voice was rough with regret when he added, “Like an idiot, I handed you to your own mate so easily.”

A tight feeling spread across my chest. For him. For Creed. For the three of us. For all the ‘what ifs’ and ‘it could have beens. What if I grew up in my own realm and never met Landon? What if Creed and I met in a more favorable situation?

Maybe Landon would have been spared from Creed’s wrath if the latter would see that he was a decent human. Maybe he would have met someone else and married her. He could have had a happy family of his own by now instead of wasting his whole life for me.

“Whatever you are planning, Landon, I’m keeping the baby.”

A tiny, bitter smile crossed his face. “I know and it doesn’t matter. I’m going to treat it as my own. Nothing will change, Elianna. The three of us will be a family. I’ll be the best father in the world.”

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