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.

babies were doing well, so she didn’t need to fuss over

couldn’t let her guard

as she stepped out of the hospital, her

sharp, angry voice blared

like that? And how could you keep it from me?

found out now proved how tight–lipped the maids, drivers, and

I’m staying with a friend

it was the one Nathaniel lived in or the one she was staying

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

staying with a friend?”

How could you stay at another man’s place? If word gets out, we’ll be the laughingstock of this

believed what Iris

have once been prominent, but

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they were

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afloat for a couple more years thanks to the 50 million dollars Heriberto gave

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

Iris became a housewife, never

that she stayed at her friend’s place after moving

No one will find out,” Iris

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

that’s not what I

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

and Iris

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

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

refused again, just as she

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