Breaking Free from the Ex-Husband novel Chapter 19

She thought, “Iris has a point. If Heriberto confronts Megan, who already despises me, she’ll hate me even more. It’s better to let him keep hating Iris for the abortion that cost me my uterus years ago.”

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Iris smiled and leaned in closer to Melanie again. “Also, was that baby you were carrying really Heriberto’s?”

Melanie was stunned, her eyes widening in shock.

Seeing her reaction, Iris instantly got it.

It turned out the baby Melanie had been carrying back then wasn’t Heriberto’s after all.

With a faint sneer, Iris walked away.

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The starry cufflinks and all the jewelry Gavin had stolen were sent to the CEO’s office of the Hale Group in the after- noon and handed to Mara.

Mara was completely stunned.

She had searched Iris thoroughly when Iris left that day and found nothing.

Mara wondered, “How did Iris get these items? –

“I was sure in the morning that Iris hadn’t taken anything.

“Accusing Iris of stealing is a sneaky scheme to frame her. It’s meant to ruin her reputation in front of Heriberto and stop her from becoming Mrs. Hale.

“But I never expected Iris to return all the items so quickly.

“Could it be that Iris really stole the items? How did Iris take them?

“I didn’t know how Iris took the items. Now that she has returned them all, it’s enough to prove that I didn’t wrongly accuse her. She’s really a thief.”

Mara had been puzzled about why Iris admitted to being a thief. Now that she knew the answer, there was no need to

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guess anymore.

She happily took all the items to see Heriberto.

Heriberto was in a foul temper and had no mind for business. But he had to pull himself together and get on with it.

Even so, Iris kept coming to mind..

Nonchalant and charming.

Confident and bright.

Ridiculous and self–deprecating.

Cute and adorable.

Enduring and stubborn.

Images of Iris kept replaying in his mind, and he couldn’t shake them off.

In fact, he was well aware that the starry cufflinks and a few pieces of jewelry she often wore couldn’t have been tak- en by her.

They had known each other for ten years, and he knew her well.

She didn’t even take any of the clothes he bought for her, so it was even more impossible for her to take any jewelry.

There were many valuable pieces of jewelry in the cabinet. If she really wanted to take them, she would definitely take the valuable ones, not a few pieces she often wore that weren’t very valuable.

He thought, “Since she didn’t take the items, why did she admit it?“.

Just thinking about this made Heriberto even more irritable.

He racked his brain and couldn’t figure it out.

Just as he was leaning back in his chair, trying to suppress his irritation, Mara walked in. Before he could open his eyes, she excitedly said, “Mr. Hale, the items have been returned.”

“What?”

Heriberto opened his eyes, and before he could finish his sentence, Mara had already brought the items to him.

When he saw the familiar pieces of jewelry in her hand and that pair of starry cufflinks, he was momentarily speech- less and stunned.

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