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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 her

as she stepped out of the hospital, her phone

soon as she answered, Megan’s sharp, angry voice blared through

Bay? You’re pregnant. How could you just move out like that? And how could you keep it from me? No one told

the

staying with a friend now.

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

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

friend?”

How could you stay at another man’s place? If word

what

once

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they were on the verge

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they only managed to stay afloat for a couple more years thanks to the 50 million dollars Heriberto gave

a child. Aside from a well–hidden shopping street, the assets she’d left to

Iris became a housewife, never holding

assets or savings, so it made perfect sense that she stayed at her friend’s place after

one will find out,” Iris

was fuming, but remembering Iris was having Heriberto’s babies, she forced herself

sweetheart, that’s not

won’t allow Heriberto to divorce you. And I will never let Melanie set foot in our home. So don’t be so stubborn. You moved out just because of an argument. That

her, and Iris knew

“Megan, Heriberto and I can’t stand each other anymore. Living under the same

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

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

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