Claimed By My Husband's Enemy novel Chapter 98

Chapter 98

(Creed)

“Impossible. These days, you have to be a little bit crazy to marry. After Landon, I have to be the craziest of all to even do the proposing myself. You are bullshitting me, Black.”

I met her when she was still Mrs. Richards. With a few strings pulled, their divorce was finalized quicker than most and she had become Ms. Dawson. The werewolf royalties claimed her as a family member, and she then became Princess Elianna Beckett. The dragons descended, recognizing her as the heir of the Rosewoods. We had come so far.

After all that, she was still the same woman I knew no matter what surname she used. She would always be Eli, the woman who would call out any man’s bullshit. She was the youngest supernatural here and I could say with utmost pride that she was faring well.

Although hearing straight from her lips that she was against marriage brought a bitter taste to my lips. If Richards was not dying yet because of the improper use of draconian mana, I would have ended him myself. A human’s system was not built for the kind of powers he harnessed illicitly. No matter how much he altered himself, at the end of the day, his main foundation was still a human. It was the very core of his being.

Today, he was paying the price. Richards’ body was destroying itself from within. It started with his mind down to his rupturing organs.

“I wouldn’t-”

“You wouldn’t know, Vicious. You don’t remember, after all.”

Elianna raised her chin; defiance was written in her eyes. “I don’t have to remember to know what I am worth, Black.”

She only reverted to calling me by the surname whenever she was pissed. Adorable.

“Take back what you said and tell me what you know.”

Unshakable too.

“You are beautiful again today, Vicious. You are beautiful every moment. Every minute. Even if you are glaring at me like you wish to stab me, I can’t look away. That’s the first of the three things I know right now.”

Suddenly, Elianna looked rattled. She opened and closed her mouth and then opened it again although no words came out. Her cheeks turned crimson.

“You… didn’t have to say it like that.” Now even her ears had turned red. Fascinating. “What’s the second thing?”

“When you

feel like you are ready to become crazy enough to ge married again, can you give me a clue?”

Tears gathered in the corners of her eyes. “Like I said, I have to be the craziest woman in the world to marry again, and you would have to be the craziest man out there to marry me, Creed Black.”

“I already am.”

She sniffled. “What about the third thing?”

“I don’t know. I forgot… although I might remember with a kiss.”

She tiptoed and aimed for my mouth. I wrapped my arms around her waist and kissed her with all the tenderness I could

master.

“Do you remember now?” she asked innocently.

I dropped kisses on her forehead, on her eyelids, on the tip of her nose, and then back on those lips I could not get enough of. Not in a thousand years. “Calm down, love. It’s okay. You don’t have to force yourself to remember. I will keep our memories safe for us right here,” I patted my forehead and then my chest. “And here. You can always create new memories with your mom, the baby, your uncles, and… with me if you want to. There. That’s the third and last thing.”

I knew that deep down, Elianna felt pressured to remember.

“Are you okay with me not remembering?”

“I can live with that. You know what is not okay? Living without you. It’s never an option, Elianna. You can keep forgetting me.” Maybe that was our curse. But we had the cure. Us. “I can keep reintroducing myself to you. Every moment, I will remind you that ‘we’ existed. I will keep reminding you that I belong to you and you belong to me.”

“Relationships always fall apart. I’ve been there before. What if we”

“We won’t.”

“How are you so sure?”

“Because I will always fight for us, Elianna.”

“I’m afraid. I don’t have the mental and physical strength to fight with you, Creed. It’s hard enough carrying a baby. Not to

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mention that I can’t fight for something I don’t remember.”

“It’s alright.” I stroke her cheeks. “I have more than enough strength to keep fighting for the two of us. Don’t think of anything. Just keep staying strong for you and the baby. Leave all the fighting to me, Elianna.”

Back then, I lost her because I lacked the necessary preparations to keep a tamer safe. I thought having allies who possessed mana was enough. I didn’t think I had to have the mina myself to become the kind of protector Elianna needed. My beast’s strength was on land. It also became his weakness which the enemies exploited.

I fought for Elianna long before I remembered her. I changed myself and my principles by becoming a hybrid to suit her, to protect her, to be with her. Even without memories, my decisions were unconsciously related to her. Because my whole world revolved around this tiny woman, even if her doubts and misgivings about her previous relationship reflected in her eyes as she stared back at me, wondering if she could trust her heart with me.

“Don’t you think you are doing too much for someone like me?” Insecurity crossed those chocolate-brown eyes for the first time. “A woman who may have a werewolf and a dragon blood but can’t shift, who have a ton of emotional scars-”

“Vicious, you are not you without your scars.”

Those scars made her the fighter she was now. Those scars were part of the reasons I fell. Hard.

“I heard your sister is getting married very soon,” Elianna deflected although her voice shook, a proof that she was struggling to keep her emotions in check. “Uncle Aram told me

I did not want to push too far. She was already confused. And so, I let her change the subject. “Yes.”

“He also said you are not attending.”

“My duty comes first. Lizbeth understands that.”

Her eyes widened in disbelief. “Are you kidding me? That’s your one and only sibling! You’re the only family she has left. And weddings only happen once in a lifetime. She may understand but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t want you there.” “Who will protect you if I go?”

“What in the patriarchal bullshit is that? I can protect myself. And I have other guards.”

She could say that because she did not remember the cruelty of the witches from before. Her mother and uncles spared her the gory details about their hunters. “No.”

“Then I’m coming with you. And we’ll bring some of the dragons she demanded with a smile that knocked me breathless.

I did not have the resistance to say no to that.

“Okay.”

“Okay? As in you are okay taking me out of this island?”

Excitement made her entire face brighten. I nodded. I would say and do anything that could light her eyes up like this.

Dale and Lizbeth decided to have their wedding on the first day of the New Year. Elianna and I attended with the triple A: Aramides, Anson, and Alistair. Aramides was considered family. He had always been there for me, especially for Lizbeth and her daughter. The two would be brokenhearted without him there. Anson, on the other hand, invited himself to the wedding, like the royal ass of the highest order that he was.

This afternoon, here they were, in their suits, sitting on their table like kings, drinking wine, and judging things.

“I honestly thought Uncle Anson and Alistair wouldn’t be able to come,” Elianna commented as she enjoyed her cake.

“Why?”

“I thought they’d find it hard to find suits that would fit their ego

I grinned.

‘I would go as well. I would like to see how average people wed, recalled Anson declaring when I asked for permission to take Elianna out of Isla El Vera. Naturally, Alistair accompanied Him. Dale and Lizbeth were nervous about it at first although they later felt honored that some dragon royalties would be gracing their wedding.

The Dragon King kept his sister on a tight leash with him in his castle so Aramides could attend comfortably at least until the ceremony was over. There were other civilian guards who were roaming around the garden where the ceremony took place. It was Dale and Lizbeth’s new house.

“It’s a New Year and we have here our new yearner,” Elianna whispered, shaking her head as she stared at her Uncle Aram whose eyes looked a little misty and with a little envy as he watched the newly-weds take their first dance. “Uncle doesn’t look like a former alpha king right now.”

“What does he look like today then?” I asked, amused.

“The patron saint of relapse. He’s obviously relapsing while listening to the song.”

Before she could talk more, we witnessed Aramides take out his phone and dialed something. Seconds later, he was on the

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phone and we watched him smile like a goddamn fool as he mouthed, “Eloise. It’s me.”

Said woman must be pissed again because he was bothering her again, looking like he had been separated from her for months when it had only been two hours. But then again, with the threat still looming around, I would have been worse with Elianna involved.

She giggled when Aramides frowned and stared at his phone not long after. Eloise must have hung up. I could not even blame the poor woman. My mate was still busy enjoying her uncle’s discomfort when the newlyweds visited our table.

I hugged my sister and patted my beta on the back. “Congratulations. I am truly happy for the both of you.”

My sister beamed. “Thank you, Creed.”

“This became possible because of you, alpha,” Dale answered humbly.

They later turned towards Elianna who rose from her seat, looking like the loveliest thing in the world in her emerald-green

gown.

“For some reason, seeing you makes me want to cry so much,” Lizbeth uttered, her eyes already watering.

Elianna frowned. That was when I remembered that the two had not seen each other since the incident between them. It did not help that due to some witchcraft, the werewolves had forgotten about her during the time they were apart.

“For some reason, seeing you makes me want to pull all your hair.” Elianna replied, gasping, and spinning to me with panic in her eyes. “This is bad, Creed. I’m having another craving today.”

“What is it?”

“Violence.”

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