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“Come on” Iris held her hands out to help Hailey out of the car but Hailey slapped her hands away with a playful glare before she came down from the car on her own.“I’m pregnant, not an invalid” Hailey joked and Iris pouted but linked their hands instead and led her inside the house.The doctor had recommended that Hailey not be allowed to work or do anything that will cause her a lot of stress and Iris was determined to follow his instructions. She would make sure that Hailey never got a reason to go back to the hospital.“Do you need anything to eat so I can ask the chef to prepare it for you” Iris asked as they went towards Hailey’s bedroom.“No. I’m tired and just want to sleep. Today has been a rollercoaster of emotions. I’m drained and just want to close my eyes and bury everything” Hailey said with a sigh but Iris’s movement halted and she turned to Hailey with raised brows.“Have you forgotten you need to eat to take your oils? You can’t take them on an empty stomach and you’
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Iris’s eyes opened and she used her hands to clean her eyes to clear her blurred vision. She sat up groggily and her eyes immediately went to Luca’s spot on the bed.He was not back.She had fallen asleep while waiting for him and it seemed she would have stayed the whole night waiting if she had not slept off due to how exhausted she was.She leaned over and touched his side of the bed to see if he came home but she wasn’t aware. She was left disappointed when she felt how cold it was.She climbed down from the bed to grab her phone from where it was charging. She sighed in disappointment when she saw that Luca didn’t return any of her calls or reply to the numerous text messages she sent to him.“It’s okay, Iris. Don’t panic just yet” She muttered to herself as she dialled the number again, silently praying he answered.Her prayers were left unanswered when the call went straight to voicemail and she knew she was fucked.“Ace” She called out, knowing her bodyguard would probably be
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Iris’s heart raced as she walked quietly behind Luca while he stormed to the room without glancing back at her.Her words fought against their selves, wondering which she could utter to calm his anger but she came up blank.Luca entered the room and shut the door in her face, making her halt abruptly as the door missed her face by an inch.Her mouth fell open in shock and she stared at the closed door. Her mind struggled to decide if Luca had shut the door, knowing she was being him or if he wasn’t aware.Was he letting her know he was angry with her? That was something she already knew. She fucked up. She knew that much.She exhaled deeply and pushed the door open, willing the universe to help her out just this once.Luca was taking off his clothes in the closet but the door was opened. He didn’t even look in her direction.Iris watched him remove his clothes and then put on some casuals. He walked past her, their shoulders almost brushing her shoulders as he made his way to the bedr
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Iris opened her eyes as the sun squeezed inside the room through the small gap between the curtains. Her eyes immediately went to Luca’s side of the bed, and she sighed in disappointment when she met it empty.It had been the same thing for over a week now. After their argument, she and Luca had been living like strangers. Luca made it worse by making himself scarce. He was barely home and almost never in their bed when she went to sleep at night or woke up the next morning. And when he was home, he barely acknowledged her. He would ignore her as if she didn’t exist and Iris soon found out that was what she hated and feared the most, Luca ignoring her. All her efforts to talk to him and try to apologize once again failed since Luca wouldn’t give her even a glance. The entire staff knew they were fighting, and she had noticed the way they were so awkward when she and Luca were in the same room, especially when he treated her like they were enemies. Iris knew she shouldn’t have done
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“My phone” Iris reached out but her hands were trembling, she couldn’t hold them out for too long before they dropped back to her side. There weren’t words to describe the terror she felt. She had a hard time believing that was her friend and wanted to see the pictures again to confirm that it was her friend that was tied up there.“Give me my phone” Her voice shook with every word as she reached for the phone again. This time, it was handed to her.Her head felt tight, like it was filled with barrels and barrels of water and her vision was slowly becoming blurry.“No, no, no” She chanted and she swiped through every picture. Hailey was almost unconscious and she didn’t even want to dare to think of how much she had gone through in such a short time. There were marks littering Hailey’s body.This was fear. Terror. And it was different from what she felt when she thought she was going to die at the hands of Jace. Her heart squeezed painfully as she got to the last picture. Hailey’s fac
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Iris’s mind blanked out for a minute before she recovered.“Luca? You kidnapped Hailey because you wanted my husband? Are you insane?” Iris tried to swallow the bile in her throat but it wouldn’t budge.“Yes, Iris. I am insane and you can’t imagine what I would do until Luca becomes mine”Iris’s legs wobbled as she tried not to spiral again. “You are crazy. I’m not going to leave my husband because you have some weird obsession over him. You better release Hailey and stop the nonsense”“Are you still trying to prove stubborn?” Iris expected her to say something childish but she didn’t.“I guess you want to be responsible for the death of two people, one of which haven’t even gotten the opportunity to see the face of the person who sacrificed them to keep something that isn’t hers”Helen began to cackle while Iris’s spine stiffened in terror. Iris couldn’t breathe.Helen knew about Hailey’s baby. How she came to know about it was the least of her worries. Now she understood why Hailey
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Iris’s hands numbly fell to her side and the phone landed on the ground. The sound of a crack was apparent but that was the last thing on Iris’s mind. Hailey was in danger because of her. She was caught in something that she had no business with just because she was close to her and it made her nauseous.There was a knock on the door but she couldn’t even bring her legs to move so she could open the door. After a few minutes, she heard keys dangling and the door was pushed open to reveal James behind the door with the bunch of keys.“Is everything okay?” Ace asked, appearing from behind James whose eyes scanned the room for potential threats before he walked away, leaving her and Ace alone. “How did you know the house was bugged? Is it related to Hailey? Have you gotten a hold of her and why is this here?”The questions that flew from Ace’s mouth bounced over her head as he bent down to pick up her phone to hand it to her. She took the phone without a word and couldn’t even stare at i
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The bank was almost empty when she entered so Iris made her way straight to the withdrawal counter where a lady sat and had no customer she was attending to.“Good morning, Mrs Rutherford, how may I help you today?” The lady greeted with a genuine smile which Iris felt bad that she couldn’t return. She was surprised that the lady had recognized her immediately and even got up as a sign of respect.“I want to withdraw all the money from my account” She replied immediately, not bothering with the formalities. She wasn’t bothered about the money since it wasn’t from the account Luca had opened for her but the one in which all her royalty for her book that went viral had been paid.“What?” The lady asked with her mouth opened wide in shock and Iris didn’t blame her. The money there was over ten million dollars if she remembered correctly. She stopped checking when it hit that number and it was months ago.She suspected that she was still earning royalty for that book and it was still bein
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