Chapter 184. Three Months Later…

“Iris, could not find it in your heart to forgive me?” Adrian asked. “I thought you loved me?” This was coming three months later and when Iris had recovered enough and agreed to see him.

“‘Loved’ being the operational word here, darling. Right now, I do not even hate you!” Iris said, smiling at him. “Hating you takes a lot of energy I do not have to expend. The eighteenth months I spent being your wife was not all a waste. It thought me about self-preservation and how fickle minded some beings can be!”

“I hoped you would forgive me for the pain you had to go through as my wife. I can’t blame it all my mother but if I had had the right guidance, maybe I would have treated you better.”

“Andrew is younger than you are and of the same parents,” Iris said laughing amusedly. “If anyone should act irrationally, he would have been my best bet but your irrational behavior is unrivalled. I begged you to allow me go and stay with my parents till the pups were born but what d