The Wife he threw Away (Claire and Lucian) novel Chapter 59

CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE CLAIRE’S POV

“Did you enjoy your day with Nathaniel?”

The question lingered in the air between us, sharp and deliberate.

Lucian’s gaze was intense and intimidating, but I didn’t look away.

“Yes.”

My answer came out steady.

Lucian stilled.

His reaction wasn’t visible, but I felt it.

A shift in the room. A shift in him.

His jaw tightened slightly as he took a step closer to me.

“Is that what this is now?” he asked quietly. “You’re spending your days with him?”

I held his gaze. “I went out.” I restated.

“That’s not what I asked.”

There it was.

Not the composed, calculated man from the courtroom, but something else.

Something closer to anger.

Or worse- jealousy.

But I didn’t know what a jealous Lucian looked like. In all the years of our marriage, he had never had a reason to be jealous.

I was always either at home, being the mistress of his mansion, or at one charity event or another as Mrs. Dhark.

Always linked to him, always his property.

Until I wasn’t.

Now, I had the freedom to go out and speak with whomever I chose.

“Or is this something more?” Lucian asked, his eyes darkening. “Should I start expecting him to replace me entirely?”

The implication was clear.

Not subtle, not controlled, but clear as day.

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I let out a soft scoff.

And then I said it. “You don’t get to question me.”

Lucian’s expression changed- almost like he couldn’t believe his ears. I had never said that to him

before.

“I’m still your husband.” He stated firmly.

“And you stopped acting like one a long time ago.” I retorted.

The words landed cleanly. Deliberately.

“You had an affair,” I continued, my voice steady but sharper now. “You got her pregnant! You moved her

into this house!”

Each word came out of my mouth with anger and pure contempt.

“You’ve done far worse than me getting a ride home.”

Lucian’s composure cracked-just slightly.

“That’s different.”

I let out a dry, humorless laugh.

“No,” I said. “It isn’t.”

Silence stretched between us. Heavy, unforgiving silence.

Then I stepped forward.

“And don’t stand here and act like this is about morality,” I added. “You lost the right to that.”

Lucian’s gaze didn’t waver, but something in it shifted.

“Be careful, Claire,” he warned quietly.

“Or what?” I shot back, daring him.

I took another step closer.

“Will you send Victoria after me again?”

That landed heavily.

I saw it.

A flicker of surprise in his eyes like I had just accused him of doing something unthinkable.

“You sat there and let her do that,” I continued, the words coming faster now and the tears gathering in my eyes just as fast. “You let her twist everything. The therapy. My past-”

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My voice tightened despite myself.

“My body!” I choked out.

Lucian didn’t interrupt. He didn’t even deny it.

“You’re a heartless bastard,” I cursed.

The words echoed softly in the room.

For a moment, nothing.

No explanation, no reaction, no apology.

Nothing!

Then Lucian exhaled slowly.

“This is a legal battle.”

I stared at him like he had two heads. Like I didn’t know him anymore. And that was the truth of the

matter.

The man I had married would not be so cruel.

“That’s your defense?” I asked.

“It’s reality,” he replied in a beat. “I’m protecting what I built.”

“At the cost of everything else?”

“At the cost of losing,” he said evenly.

There it was again- That cold logic. The same old justification.

Something in me snapped.

“Then win!” I yelled.

Lucian’s gaze flickered.

“Win the case! Keep the company, keep everything!”

I swallowed.

“But you will never find someone who loves you the way I did.”

Silence followed.

I expected Lucian to argue… to shut me down.

But he did neither.

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He simply looked at me, the steel in his eyes disappearing, replaced by something softer, something familiar… something like the man I had married.

“I know.” He said.

The words hit harder than anything else.

Because he meant them.

Because he wasn’t denying it.

Lucian’s gaze shifted, just for a moment, as if he was looking at something else. Something far away.

“Do you remember the day we met?” he asked suddenly.

The question threw me off.

I frowned slightly.

“What?”

“I do,” he said.

His voice had changed.

Quieter.

Not softer.

Just… different.

“You walked into that room like you didn’t belong there,” he continued. “But you didn’t care.”

I didn’t move.

“You weren’t trying to impress anyone. You weren’t calculating anything. You just… existed.”

A pause.

“And somehow that was enough.”

Something in my chest tightened.

Lucian looked back at me.

“I never thought that woman would be standing here one day trying to ruin me.”

The words landed sharply.

But I didn’t flinch.

“You did that yourself,” I said.

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His jaw tightened.

“You mistook my gentleness for weakness,” I continued. “For ignorance.”

A step closer.

“For something you could ignore.”

My voice dropped.

“All I ever did was love you.”

The words broke something open between us.

Lucian inhaled slowly.

Then, for the first time-

He said it.

“I don’t know how to love.” He wasn’t dramatic. He wasn’t defensive.

He simply spoke the truth.

I stared at him, then answered just as simply.

“I loved you anyway.”

The silence that followed felt different. Unlike before, this silence hurt.

Lucian stepped closer. Too close.

I felt it immediately.

The shift in the air.

The pull.

“I loved you,” he said.

My breath caught in my throat as I stared into his deep blue eyes.

“From the moment I met you.”

He took another step closer.

“I loved you when you stood across from me in that courtroom. I loved you this morning when you

walked out that door.”

My chest tightened painfully.

“And I love you now.” He said, voice low.

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My heart was aching strangely, whilst beating fast.

Lucian’s gaze locked onto mine.

“Right now,” he added. “Standing here. Arguing with me.”

My eyes burned, but he didn’t stop.

“I will always love you, Claire.”

My vision blurred slightly, because I believed him.

For the first time-

I saw it.

Not in his actions. And definitely not in his choices.

But in the way he said it.

The way it cost him something to admit it.

Then he stepped back.

And just like that, everything had changed again.

“But I can’t be the man you deserve.”

The felt like a heavy blow to my chest.

“We’ve gone too far,” he continued. “There’s no going back to what this was.”

Reality crashed back in, cold and final.

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Lucian moved closer again, and for a moment, I thought he might touch me.

Or I might let him.