Fake Daughter Is The Real Legend (Iris Sutton) novel Chapter 136

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Chapter 136 Lovestruck

Finished

“But I didn’t have a choice!”

“I still love you, Stella!”

“If you just ask him to spare me this once, we’ll buy plane tickets and leave the province together. We’ll start over somewhere new.”

“I swear I’ll spend the rest of my life making it up to you!”

Stella remained silent for a long moment before slowly rolling her wheelchair backward, widening the distance between them.

“When we first got together…” she said softly, closing her eyes. “You made me that exact same promise.”

“Do you remember?”

Then she looked toward the second–in–command.

“Sir… do you know what kind of ending Jack had planned for me?”

One of the men beside him answered before the second–in–command had a chance to speak.

“He planned to sell you to one of the Whitmore family’s clubs. After they were finished with you, they would’ve dumped you across the border.”

At those words, Stella felt as though she had finally awakened from a long nightmare. She lowered her gaze to Jack once more, and this time there wasn’t the slightest trace of affection left in her eyes.

“In that case,” she said with quiet composure, “give him the same fate he planned for me.”

“No!”

“No!”

“Stella, you can’t do this to me!”

The Whitmore family had already beaten Jack within an inch of his life. Now, realizing he was about to be sold into one of those clubs, his face turned deathly pale. For a man, the fate awaiting him would be even worse.

He scrambled to his feet, but a guard immediately forced him back to the floor.

“Take him away.”

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Jack’s desperate screams echoed through the room as he was dragged outside.

ร.

Finished

“How’s the wine?”

Noticing that the wine in Iris’s glass had gone untouched, the second–in–command smiled and gestured for a fresh glass to be poured.

Iris slowly swirled the wine in her glass before looking up at him.

“So… are we really just here to drink wine?”

A brief silence settled over the room.

The figure behind the folding screen remained perfectly still before finally speaking.

“Not entirely.”

“There’s something I’d like to ask you.”

“Miss Noir, do you have a boyfriend?”

“Or perhaps a fiancé?”

The wine in Iris’s glass rippled gently.

“If not,” he continued, “would you consider marrying me? You could become the wife of Alliance Secure Mission’s second–in–command.”

The men standing around the room were stunned. None of them had expected those words to come from their boss.

Behind the folding screen, he waited patiently for her answer.

Iris finally lifted her wineglass, took a slow sip, and set it back on the table.

“Sure.”

His expression immediately darkened.

Meeting his gaze with a faint smile, Iris asked,

“Then tell me…”

“What’s the difference between becoming the second–in–command’s wife…”

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“…and becoming Ares Barclay’s fiancée?”

The man fell silent for a moment.

Then his familiar voice returned.

“When did you figure it out, Iris?”

He rose from behind the folding screen, walked around it, and took the seat beside her.

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It had only been a few days since they’d last seen each other, yet the moment he got a good look at her, he couldn’t help noticing that his fiancée had lost weight.

Iris glanced at him.

“I started suspecting you the moment you noticed me upstairs.”

“I couldn’t see your face, but a person’s presence can’t be disguised.”

“Someone raised to inherit a family like the Barclays carries a certain presence. That commanding aura is impossible to hide.”

“Even from behind, I recognized you.” She lightly tapped the rim of her wineglass. “Offering me a drink only confirmed my suspicion.”

“You came all this way just to rescue someone?”

Iris nodded.

“I came to discuss a business partnership. And while I was here, I helped a friend’s younger sister.”

Stella sat there, completely speechless.

Miss Noir…

Ares’s fiancée?

After the initial shock, it actually made perfect sense. Someone as beautiful and capable as Miss Noir could only be matched by a man like Ares.

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Iris had already hired him to gather information and paid a deposit up front. He’d already sent his people out to investigate, so if she somehow offended the big boss…

What kind of bombshell was that?

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