All Chapters of I Married My Enemy to Destroy Him: Chapter 161 - Chapter 170

“I was there the night your father died.”The stranger's words followed me all the way back to the safehouse.I couldn't escape them.Not even when the doors were locked.Not even when Chloe cleaned the blood from Lucien's shoulder.Not even when the old woman finally fell asleep in the room upstairs.Your father did.What had he meant?Why would my father send a man to watch his own death?And why had that man looked at me as if I were supposed to remember him?I stood by the window, staring into the darkness.Behind me, Lucien spoke.“You're thinking too loudly.”I turned.He was sitting on the edge of the bed while Chloe wrapped another bandage around his shoulder.“I didn't know that was possible.”“With you, apparently anything is.”I tried to smile.It didn't work.Lucien noticed.He always did.He rose carefully and walked toward me.“You've been blaming yourself since we left.”“I have reasons.”“No.”His voice was quiet.“You have questions. That's different.”I looked away.

Adrian was my brother.The words kept repeating inside my head.Yet somehow, they didn't make sense.I looked at Lucien.He looked just as stunned as I felt.“My brother,” I whispered.The old woman nodded.“Your mother's son.”Lucien's face hardened.“Then why did everyone believe Adrian was my brother?”“Because your fathers wanted it that way.”I frowned.“My fathers?”The old woman sighed.“There were secrets inside secrets, child.”I hated that answer.I needed facts.Not riddles.“What happened to my brother?”“He was taken.”“By Victor?”“No.”The old woman looked at Lucien.“By your father.”Lucien's eyes widened.“My father?”“Your father discovered what Black Veil was doing to your mother's family. He knew Victor wanted Seraphina because of the sequence she carried.”I shook my head.“But why would he take my brother?”“To hide him.”“From whom?”“Everyone.”The room became silent.Then Chloe stepped forward.“Wait. If Adrian was Seraphina's brother, what does that have to d

Victor didn't want me dead.That was the first thing I understood when the guns surrounded us.The second was far worse.He had never wanted me dead.He had wanted me alive.“Put the gun down, Lucien,” Victor ordered.Lucien didn't move.His weapon remained pointed directly at Victor.“You killed my parents.”Victor smiled.“And if you shoot me, you'll never learn why.”Lucien's finger tightened around the trigger.I touched his arm.“Don't.”He looked at me.“Seraphina…”“He wants you to shoot him.”Victor's smile widened.“She understands.”I hated the satisfaction in his voice.“What do you want from me?”Victor looked at me as though he had been waiting years for that question.“Not what you think.”“Then tell me.”“You.”My stomach tightened.“I already know that.”“No.”He stepped closer.“I don't want you dead. I don't even want to hurt you.”“Then why did you destroy my family?”His expression hardened.“Because your family refused to understand what you are.”I felt Lucien mo

I remembered the man's voice before I remembered his face.Deep.Calm.Almost gentle.A voice that had whispered to me from behind a locked door when I was a child.“You don't have to be afraid, little one.”I opened my eyes.I was still inside the car.Gunfire was still exploding around us, but everything sounded distant.Lucien was saying my name.“Seraphina.”I couldn't answer.The memory had returned.Not completely.But enough.A man had been standing beside Adrian.Adrian had been crying.And that man had placed a hand on his shoulder.I remembered his ring.A black stone surrounded by a silver circle.The same symbol I'd seen on the Black Veil documents.I grabbed Lucien's sleeve.“The man.”His eyes narrowed.“What man?”“The one behind Adrian.”Isabella immediately turned around.Her expression changed.“You remembered him?”“I saw his ring.”“What ring?”“A black stone. Silver circle.”Isabella went completely still.Elena looked at her.“You know it.”Isabella nodded slowly

The man looked at me as though he had been waiting twenty-seven years for this moment.I couldn’t move.Neither could Lucien.Even Marcus, the man who had controlled so many pieces of my life from the shadows, had stepped aside.The old man leaned heavily on his silver cane.His face was lined with age, but his eyes were sharp.Too sharp.And painfully familiar.“Who are you?” I whispered.He smiled.“You already know me.”“No, I don’t.”“Yes, you do.”His gaze moved over my face.“You have your mother’s eyes.”My heart tightened.“Don’t talk about my mother.”He stopped smiling.“She was the bravest woman I ever knew.”“Then tell me why she died.”His expression darkened.“Because she discovered the truth.”“What truth?”“That Black Veil was never meant to belong to anyone.”Lucien stepped forward.“Enough riddles.”The old man looked at him.“Lucien Virelli.”“You know me.”“I knew your father before you were born.”Lucien raised his gun.“Then tell me what happened to him.”The old