Breaking Free from the Ex-Husband

Chapter 26

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“Oh, I see. Once you divorce me, you’ll be with Nathaniel and live happily ever after with him, won’t you? And then what? You’ll turn around and play the victim, claiming I abandoned you and our kids for Mel?”

Heriberto was raving like a lunatic, irrational and completely unreasonable. “I’m telling you now–don’t even think about it!”

With that, he hung up.

Listening to the flat, mechanical beeping, Iris smiled in disbelief.

They’d known each other for a decade and been married for three years. And this was how Heriberto had always seen her.

So it wasn’t him who was blind–it was her.

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For the next few days, Iris stayed in her apartment, getting some rest and going over the client files. She didn’t step outside once.

Heriberto didn’t contact her again.

But Megan seemed concerned about the kids. She called a…ost every day, constantly suggesting that Iris move back into the Hale’s mansion so she’d be better looked after.

Only after Iris repeatedly promised to take good care of herself and the children did Megan finally drop the idea,

To make sure everything was progressing well, Iris went for another

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prenatal checkup eight days after her last hospital visit.

babies were doing well,

she couldn’t let

out of the hospital,

sharp,

move out like that? And how could

she only found out now proved how tight–lipped the maids, drivers, and bodyguards at Rivera Bay

I’m staying with a friend

the one she was staying in now–had been bought under the name of Lumora

owner of Lumora Group, so she was staying at his place in the

a friend?” Megan was stunned and

childre How could you stay at another man’s place?

believed what Iris had

have once

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Heriberto, they were

245 ochers

to Iris’s wedding. On top of that, they only managed to stay afloat for a couple more years thanks to

passed away when Iris was a child. Aside from a well–hidden shopping

a housewife, never holding

that she

worry, Megan. No one

having Heriberto’s babies, she forced herself to calm down. Her voice softened

sweetheart, that’s not

let Melanie set foot in our home. So don’t be so stubborn. You moved out just because of an argument. That only makes

softly to her, and Iris knew it was all because of the

“Megan, Heriberto and I can’t stand each other anymore.

stay with me. I’ll take care of you,” Megan

again, just as she always did. “Thanks, Megan,

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