Breaking Free from the Ex-Husband

Chapter 26

Chapter 26

“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.

doing well, so

she couldn’t let her

of

Megan’s sharp, angry voice blared

just move out like that? And how could you keep it from me?

how tight–lipped the maids, drivers, and bodyguards at

staying with a friend now. I’m

two apartments at Bluehaven Estates–whether it was the one Nathaniel lived in or the one she was staying in now–had been bought under the

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

with a friend?” Megan was stunned

wife, and you are carrying his childre How could you stay at another man’s place?

what

family might have once

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married Heriberto, they were on the verge

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of that, they only managed to stay afloat for a couple more years thanks to the

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

graduating, Iris became a housewife, never holding a

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

Megan. No one will find out,”

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

not what I

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 only makes things easier for

so softly to her, and Iris knew it

each other anymore. Living under the same roof would only

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

refused again, just as she always

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