All Chapters of Contract marriage: I am the daughter of my husband's enemy: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

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21. Cry

Elara’s POV,When they leave, Lucy speaks up from beside me. “Such a cute couple. I never thought I’d see the day.”I squawk, actually squawk, in surprise before clearing my throat. I face her amused self and smile.“What do you mean, you never thought you’d see the day?” I ask and lead her towards my room. “Oh, umm…” She hesitates. “Oh, why bother? You’re his wife already; surely you must know.”We take a turn. “Know what?”“Ah, it’s nothing.” She waves her hand. “Really.”I open the room door and walk in. “Lucy, you are going to be taking care of our son.” I pause and turn to face her. “I’ll appreciate real honesty.”“You’re speaking of honesty?” She scoffs, and I raise a brow. Interesting. She still has a backbone, thank goodness.“Whatever do you mean?” I feign innocence, shrugging, and she frowns, looking around.“I don’t know any Noemi.” She whispers. “Why did you tell your husband that?”I pour a cup of brandy for myself and take a sip. “Ah, would you have preferred me tellin

22. Celene

Lucien’s POV, It’s been three days since Solis brought in a random lady and declared her Asher’s nanny. I hate to admit it, but Lucy was a perfect choice for Asher. Asher has never really had any problem with the elderly, but I know firsthand how difficult it is to impress Asher. For four days, Asher couldn’t look me in the eye. He ran in the opposite direction anytime he saw me. I remember I had to buy him a lot of gifts and promise him to take care of his mother before he could comfortably call me his father. Speaking of, Elara still hadn’t told her friends that I am Asher’s real father. Sometimes, I wonder what that woman is thinking. Speaking of the woman, when last did we have any decent conversation? I suddenly see how quiet the world is without her complaining, nagging, or annoying me. Yesternight, I looked up at the sky to look at the stars and realized… The stars don’t shine the same when someone isn’t there to notice them with you. God, she’s such a witch. Looking at sta

23. Power Shift

Elara’s POV, I’m on the upper balcony when they arrive.I hear the heels clicking on marble and smell the perfume drifting upward. Their voices are so loud. I take a sip of my champagne, and sneer. Seraphina.And Lucien’s mother. I know she was going to arrive that morning because I’d heard the servants talking. It irks me that Lucien didn’t deem it fit to inform me. Speaking of things irking me, Lucen and I haven’t spoken for more than a while. It irritates me almost as much as noticing even does. I can’t help it. The rooms are quieter when he’s not there. Recently, I’ve found myself looking in any room I enter for him.I lean against the balustrade, laptop forgotten beside me, and look down like the queen I am. The mistress of this mansion. Celene Kòrvac enters first.She doesn’t look up immediately; she clearly never does. Women like her expect the world to tilt its head for them, not the other way around. Seraphina follows, dressed in something yellow and expensive, already wea

24. I missed Lucien

Elara’s POV,Lucien walks in to silence.Water drips from Celene’s sleeve onto the marble floor. Seraphina stands frozen, soaked, mascara carving black rivers down her cheeks. I’m still holding myself perfectly upright, and my pulse is steady like I didn’t just redraw the power map of this house.Lucien stops at the threshold. He takes it all in in one sweep, and his gaze lands on me first. Looking up like he knew I was there all along. He groans, and I smile. “Mi rey!” I call out, now already used to it. Mi Rey is almost mocking. An inside joke. He’s my king in name. He gives me a sweet smile, and I continue. “You didn’t tell me your mother was visiting.”I pass Celene, bumping into her shoulder, and go downstairs, never breaking eye contact with him.“A total slip on my part,” I say, as I go to hold his arm. It hit me that that has also become a habit for me. Holding his arm. “But I may have given her the wrong welcome gift.”I whisper, and he bends to do the same. “Cara, did you p

25. School scandal

Third Person’s POV, The professor’s office smells of old books and cheap disinfectant. Celene sits on the edge of the chair, scrunching up her nose and Seraphina crosses her legs with her smile sharpened to something decorative and dangerous.The professor clears his throat as he enters and Seraphina turns slowly to acknowledge him. Celene doesn’t. The professor frowns, wondering who these ladies are. “You said this was…” He sits opposite them. “Urgent.” “It is,” Celene replies smoothly, her voice clipped. She doesn’t smile and the Professor’s spine shivers. “We are concerned about a particular student.”Seraphina leans forward, resting an elbow on her knee, chin propped on her fingers. “Very concerned,” She adds sweetly. “She has a habit of…how do I put this? Taking things that do not belong to her.”The professor frowns. “If this is about academic misconnduct, I’m the wrong person to meet.”Celene raises a hand. “You are exactly the person I want to meet.”She straightens her bac

26. She knows

The next day, I get to work early so I could use the upgraded printer. I wanted everything to be perfect when I proved myself.I inhale sharply when I remember the night before. Lucien had just stared at me as I cried and rocked myself gently on the bed. After a while, he had placed a hand on my cheek and whispered, “That’s my girl.”To my embarrassment, I had wanted to lean fuurther into his palm but he left before I could act. Fine, I admit I also came early to work because I wanted to avoid him. I shake my head and focus on the papers I’m printing. I smile wickedly when I imangine the looks on Celene and Seraphina’s face when I arrest the professor for falsely accusing a student.Then my smile falls when I look past the room and see a black-haired lady pass. She was wearing a stained doctor’s coat and I snort to myself when I recognise her. Mireya Greye.Lucien’s personal doctor. Or, should I say, Mafia Doctor. Of course, it wasn’t in her profile but I suspected. I narrowed my e

27. Elara is mine

Lucien’s POV, “I told you,” Mireya says as soon as she enters my office and we all turn to look at her. Mireya is not one for sudden outbursts, so this was a surprise. “You told us what?” Nikolai voices our questions, and she snatches the bottle of alcohol from his hands. “Hey, come on–”“I told you that Solis was a bad idea.” She looks directly at me, and I perk up from the document I was reading. Adrian gives me a confused look, which I return.“You spoke to my wife?” I ask, placing a hand under my chin, and she plops her ass on the couch beside Nikolai.“She spoke to me.” She corrects, then exhales through her teeth. “I told you, she’s bad news.”“What do you mean, she’s bad news?” Adrian asks, and I lean forward to hear her reason. She looks at me and shakes her head.“She knows about you, Lucien. About us.” She says, waving her hand about. I slowly stand up with a frown on my face. “I don’t understand.”“What I’m saying is…” She sinks further into her chair. “She knows you’re

28. The young wolf said please

Elara’s POV,I grin at the screen, watching everything collapse under my control. Control.I think "control" is my favorite word. Earlier this evening, I had finally posted the real results of my data on the school portal for all to see and even generated a fake recording of the professor accepting a bribe from someone to sabotage a student.All anonymously, of course. From what I see, he doesn’t want to confess who he was talking to. Perhaps Celene had threatened him with his family. Either way, I didn’t care.I am so giddy, I shake my legs in the air.Oh, the joy of deflating someone’s balloon.My room door is flung open and I glance to see…“Hello, husband.”His jaw clenches as he shuts the door quietly. I roll over on my bed facing the ceiling.“The last time you were in this room, I was naked…” I look at him with a smirk. “And you were not. Want to return the favor?"He stops in his tracks, then folds his hands across his chest. “I heard you contacted Viper to help you with you

29. Let me be his grandmother

Elara’s POV, There’s laughter coming from the tea room. My room door is open so I can hear it clearly. I hiss and stand up to shut the door.I already knew who and who was there. Celene and Seraphina.Yes, even now, they were still in the mansion. For some reason, Lucien hadn’t chased them out.As I was about to slam the door loud enough for them to hear, I heard a smaller voice. “What next, Grandma? What else did you do?”What? Without a second thought, I sprint out of the room, straight to the tea room to find Celene sitting on a single sofa and Asher sitting on her lap with star-struck eyes. They hadn’t noticed me, so I just watched. Thankfully, Seraphina wasn’t around, so I just had to count on Celene’s familial instinct to take care of Asher.Actually, I counted on her hatred towards me to hurt him so I could find the perfect reason to kick her out.“...and from that day onwards, she never dared to look me in the eye.” Asher laughs, kicking his small feet. “You’re so weird,

30. The scar

Elara’s POV,The green dress hugs my chest so tight, I fear it’s a plan of Lucien to not let me breathe and die of suffocation during the gala. “Mummy, you’re so beautiful.”I turn with a wide smile on my face, and walk to meet Asher who was doing his homework on my bed. “I’m so beautiful?” I shuffle his hair, and gently place my forehead on his. “You’re so handsome. Such a shame you can’t come with us, you’d send all the ladies running to you.”He laughs, and turns back to his book, blushing. I take note of it and smirk, “What? You wouldn’t like that?”He shakes his head, still avoiding my eyes. “Grandma says I look like father when he was younger.” He shrugs, then looks up at me. “But I don’t have any talents like father.”“What?”He sits up. “Yesterday, my classmates were showing off their drawings and paintings. One boy even played the clarinet. But I didn’t do anything. One girl said maybe I don’t have any talent.”“Talent?” I scoff, arranging the bulky dress to sit beside him

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