All Chapters of A Substitute Bride for the Billionaire: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

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Luca felt trapped. For the first time in a long time, he was at a loss of words. This was the first time he felt tied. He had no idea where to start or what to say to make his confession look dreadful that what it was.Luca always prided himself as a strategist. He always had a plan and never went with his guts but it was different today. He didn’t know how to proceed without hurting Iris more than he already did. She meant so much to him that the sight of her tears was his undoing.Luca had never felt so strongly about anybody like the way he felt. Seeing her hurt felt like he was the one suffering a worse fate. He hated it and would do anything to make sure she never shed a tear but how does he solve this when he was the cause of her tears?Luca closed his eyes and let out a weary sigh. He could already picture the memory from that night, and it was still so vivid like it was happening before his eyes.He clenched his jaws so tight they caused a headache. He didn’t want to recount
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Iris was on her way to Jace’s office. She planned to confront him about Luca’s story of the accident. She already knew how to ask the questions so he wouldn’t be suspicious. She didn’t want him to know she suspected him.Something didn’t add up about Luca’s story and it was Jace’s involvement. At first, it would seem like a coincidence, but Iris had learnt the hard way that nothing with Jace was ever a coincidence.Iris got to Jace's door and was about to open it when she heard voices in a heated argument inside the office. Her hand hovered over the doorknob, and she leaned to press her ears against the door to listen well and quietly prayed that no one would pass by while she was eavesdropping.“Why are you here, Selene?” Jace snapped. “I told you not to come here. What if someone sees you? Are you insane?”“I don’t care about that. You should have thought about that before you tried to play smart with me” The woman hissed and Iris’s eyes widened in recognition. It was the same woman
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Iris didn’t know what to do. She weighed her options in her head whether to call Jace’s bluff or listen to what he had to say. Her curiosity had always been bigger than her and it showed today as well. She was curious. She wanted to hear this full truth Jace was confident he knew. “Aren’t you going to sit?” Jace taunted “It’s a long story” he said gesturing to the chairs before him, but Iris ignored him and only huffed in reply which didn’t bother Jace at all.He shrugged “If you want to stand, that’s fine with me as well but maybe stand close to a wall so you can have some support in case what I tell you will be too shocking to hear” Jace mocked, and Iris only glared harder at him which he replied with a widened smirk.“Are you going to talk or what?” She snapped, irritated by Jace’s smugness and the way he kept delaying it.“My dear cousin may look powerful on magazine covers and clever to you, but it is all a front. He is nothing more than a gullible man who can be easily manipul
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The grip on her head was painful and the person was holding on very tight, preventing her from turning her head to see who had the painful hold on her.Her hand went out to grab the person’s hand on her hair to see if she could ease the burn the hold was causing as she was slammed back into a hard chest.“Ouch” She struggled fiercely, trying to free herself but all her efforts were futile. The person dragged her until they were hidden between the set of cars.Iris was forcefully pushed down so she was leaning over the hood of the car, her face pressing painfully against the metallic surface of the hood.It was then she saw the person who was manhandling her.“Jace? Are you crazy?” She yelled, anger overtaking the pain she was feeling “what do you think you are doing?” She growled and struggled harder against his hold, but he was stronger than her.Her heart pounded hard against her rib cage as she struggled uselessly against him. She knew he was going to come after her, and it was the
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The hit Iris was waiting for never came as Jace was pulled roughly and thrown off her so hard, that he slammed into a car with a loud thud followed by a sickening crack.Iris opened to see Luca in front of her panting hard. His eyes were ablaze with anger and his hands were clenched as he stormed over to Jace and picked him up by the collar of his shirt.Luca delivered a punch that had Jace’s head turning to the side, and he slammed against the car again with a wheeze as Luca didn’t bother holding him up.Luca had been on his way to a meeting with a client, but the client had to cancel because of an emergency so Luca had no other choice but to return to the office.He had seen Jace from behind holding someone and wanted to stop him, wondering what had gotten into him that he was hurting someone in the company’s building, but nothing could ever prepare him to see it was his wife Jace had pinned down and was strangling.Luca turned back to his wife to see her drop to the ground almost l
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Iris could hear voices as she struggled to open her eyes. The voices were hushed, and it sounded as though they were far away, and she was submerged underwater.She tried to make out the voice but it was inaudible. She wanted to open her eyes, but it wouldn’t budge.Her eyelids were heavy, and her body numb but she was aware of the heat in her hand. Someone was holding her hand, brushing her hair and whispering into her ears words she couldn’t make out yet.She felt lips brush her forehead and it only made her desperation to wake up grow but the person hadn’t noticed her struggle yet as it was all happening in her head.Iris moaned and that seemed to get the attention of the person by her side. She wanted to desperately open her eyes, but she couldn’t.Her whole body was on fire, and it felt like she had been run over by a truck. She tried to tighten her hand around the one holding hers to let them know she was awake.Her hands didn’t do much, but they twitched, alerting the person th
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“You okay?” Luca asked for the millionth time in less than an hour as he escorted Iris to the car.She was finally getting discharged, and she was eager to leave the hospital and lie in her own bed, but Luca was crowding her.They were almost joined at the hip because Luca had his hands around her waist as he led her to their car. He hadn’t been to work for the four days she had stayed in the hospital to be monitored.Iris rolled her eyes at her husband and decided not to give him any reply. She had found it cute at first but now he was getting on her nerves and the small smile tugging at the corner of his lips made her aware that he knew what he was doing.Iris took a deep breath of fresh air that wasn’t laced with disinfectants and doom as they stepped out of the hospital building.Luca opened the back door for her and guided her gently to enter the car even though she didn’t need the help.Luca Rutherford was waiting for her hand and foot. That was something she refused to pass up
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Iris walked Alanna to the door. She wanted to go with her to the airport but her friend refused and insisted that she stay home to recover more even though she was fully better and was back to her normal state of mind.“Are you sure you don’t want me to come with you to the airport?” Iris asked her again while they watched the security men load her luggage into the trunk of the car.Luca’s parents had left three days back and had offered for Alanna to take their private jet with them but Alanna wanted to spend the week with her so she declined but she had to leave today because she had her internship and she only took a week off.“No, girlie. I’m fine and can make it myself. It was good seeing you again” Alanna said, grasping her hand “I’m glad you are happy. Luca loves you and you are surrounded by people who care for you so I’m no longer worried about you”“You are the best person I know,” Iris murmured against her neck as she hugged her.“I know” Alanna replied with a smirk as they
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“Mom, you didn’t have to.” Iris whined even though a smile was threatening to break out from behind her pout.“No, my dear. You both need time to yourself after what happened and someone suggested it and I decided it would be a great gift and also an apology from me to you” Evelyn insisted.“I told you a countless times already that none of what happened was your fault and you do not need to apologize for it. If it’s an apology then I won’t accept it because you did nothing wrong” She scolded with a frown. Evelyn still insisted that what happened with Jace was her fault and she would not allow her to blame herself for an adult’s mistake.“Okay, fine” Evelyn spoke hurriedly “Take it as a gift from me then. I didn’t set it at a particular date so you both can take your time and pick a date that is convenient after you have settled things in the company”“Thank you, Mom. You keep spoiling me with gifts even though I have never given you anything” She said with a fond smile as her eyes te
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Nuel? Nuel, the runaway fiancé? Iris turned back to the Hispanic male at the door with a glare of her own. The man studied her with mild confusion before rudely brushing past her almost shoving her out of the way with his shoulders as he approached Hailey who was still frozen and in shock with his sudden appearance.The man was good-looking. Iris couldn’t deny that, but what he had done to her friend would never make him look less disgusting in her eyes, which was why Iris held so much venom for the man in front of her friend with a half-baked regretful expression.Iris wanted to pull him from Hailey and shove him out of the house but she knew it wasn’t her place. This was their matter and she would only interfere in Hailey needed her help but that didn’t mean she was going to leave this douchebag alone with Hailey just because she wouldn’t say anything.So she leaned against the door, arms folded across her chest as she watched whatever was about to unravel before her eyes. Iris wat
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