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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.

results were excellent. The babies were doing well, so

she couldn’t let her guard

out of

sharp, angry voice blared through

pregnant. How could you just move out like that? And how could you keep

how tight–lipped the maids, drivers, and bodyguards at Rivera Bay were.

friend now. I’m fine,” Iris

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

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

a friend?”

you are carrying his childre How could you stay at

what Iris had

have once been

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were on the verge

245 ochers

that, they only managed to stay afloat for a couple more

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

a housewife, never holding a

that she stayed at her friend’s place after moving out of Rivera

one will find

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

sweetheart, that’s not

Heriberto to divorce you. And I will never let Melanie set foot in our home. So don’t be so stubborn.

and Iris knew it was all because

and I can’t stand each other anymore. Living under the same

I’ll take

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

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