Page 196 of His Sunshine Baby

“I watched you, of course! To be honest, it wasn’t easy. The Blood Moon watches their territory closely, and the Black brothers almost caught me more than once.”

The female that intruded on their territory! Moon Goddess, so many things are coming to light now! I can’t believe it. All those little details that had me intrigued earlier, even…

“You’re the one who sent that picture of me and Levi kissing to Nate!”

“I did! Oh, it was fun, to be honest. Having you pretend you had a boyfriend here to keep Diego at bay while hiding your relationship with Black! Not going to lie, Elena, it was thrilling. In all honesty, I did it out of revenge too.”

“I never did anything to you, Iris, all this jealousy was your own!”

She sighs and shakes her head.

“Oh no, Elena, you never did anything. That’s right. But it didn’t stop Eric from being crazy in love with you.”

“Eric?”

I didn’t expect him to be brought up. Right, her deceased boyfriend used to express his love for me, but I thought that was ancient history since he got with her! Iris loses her smile while talking about Eric.

“If I ever had one crush, it was Eric. For years, I got prettier and prettier, hoping he’d notice me. Yet, like an idiot, I had to watch him talk about how much he loved you day after day… It was so upsetting! So, when you pretended to go out with Levi, I knew it was my chance. I asked him out, arguing you’d never notice him anyway. Luckily, he agreed. Do you know howuseful it is to be with a police officer, Elena? Much more than I thought.”

I can’t believe her. She even used Eric? Iris chuckled again.

“When Levi was thrown into your love affair, I didn’t really expect it. But after that picture, I knew your relationship with Black would collapse at any time. I mean, any male would be jealous, right? Yet, it had already exceeded my expectations, so I threw his ex in the mix, just to be sure. With Eric’s contacts, it was easy to get his passcode, send a little innocent text to his ex-girlfriend, and just as I saw you leave the pack again to see him, with the right timing… surprise!”

A wave of cold anger is rising in my bones. I can’t believe her! She was evil enough to plot so much against me and Nathaniel? I’ve never wanted to slap someone so much!

“What was your plan, Iris? Bringing us together just to have us break up? Why?”

She shrugs.

“I told you, I expected you to sleep with him a few times, not have it go on for weeks and then months! Oh, I guess you fought a few times. You have quite a temper, cousin, after all, don’t you? Yet, as time passed, you kept getting back together with him, and a thought hit me. I wanted you with Black to piss Clark off and have him take you off his list of potential heirs, but what if? What if things got serious between you and Black? What if you got the Blood Moon’s backing eventually? I realized things were more complex than I thought when we went out together. I sensed something was going on between you and the King’s mate, but I couldn’t grasp what.”

I remember. Iris picked me up at university, and we went to see Nora’s fight.

“I had only meant to bring you to have you betray my father and Clark’s order on leaving the pack territory, but…”

“You called your father, you said I had permission to–!”

“Oh, yeah, I lied. I pretended to call.”

Holy Moon Goddess, that explains why Xavier was so fucking furious! He never gave me his permission to go out, yet I thought so and kept arguing with him! I can’t believe Iris was behind all this from the start!

“Anyway, I had another problem on my hands. You got closer to the Blood Moon, and I couldn’t understand why. Then, the attack. I lost Eric. I was so, so mad, and you… and meanwhile, you went and got fucking pregnant with Black’s child!”

Everyone’s eyes are on me, shocked or angry. If anyone wondered about my baby’s father, I guess things are out in the open now. But I don’t care. I’m angrier about Iris being behind all of this. I just can’t believe her!

“I was furious. I had lost my lover, yet you of all people managed to conceive a child with Black? It was hard to swallow, but at least Clark knew soon enough, and I knew he would never allow that. I finally got you out of my way. But to be honest, I didn’t feel relieved. It wasn’t enough. Hence I decided it would be better if you didn’t have this child at all. After all, I worked so hard for you to not become this pack’s Alpha, I couldn’t let you become another pack’s Luna, right?”

What the hell? I try to think, but I don’t understand what she could have done. However, Iris’ unhappy face tells me things didn’t turn out her way. She growls softly.

“So, I tipped off your dear ex, Diego, about your pregnancy. You should have seen it, it was funny how crazy and mad he went. You have a thing for psychos, cousin. Anyway, he started rampaging about how he was going to stab you, make sure your next child was his.”

I get a chill down my back. Holy fuck, that sounds like the crazy Diego I once knew. But Diego is dead now. I swallow, trying to calm down.

“But it didn’t go your way, Iris, did it? Diego is dead.”

She glares my way, losing her smirk for good.

“Yeah, you’re lucky your dear lover got a hold of him. Since Clark had you on lockdown, Diego had to wait for the right moment to get to you. It wasn’t easy, since you were never alone. If it wasn’t for Black protecting you...”

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