When he first laid eyes on her, Zavier's eyes lit up, "Skyler?"
Was Skyler still alive?
As the girl slowly approached, Zavier got a clear view of her face, and he knew, she couldn't possibly be Skyler. Despite her face being almost identical to Skyler's, she looked too young, just as youthful as Skyler was when he first met her.
There were no signs of age on her face, no calm demeanor like Skyler's, and certainly none of the determination and resolve in Skyler's eyes.
The girl stepped forward and said gently, "Mr. Rivera, my name is Iris."
Zavier reached out, wanting to touch that familiar face, yet hesitated. His hand hung in midair, unsure.
Seeing this, Barbara and Bernard quietly left together. Only Zavier and Iris remained.
Zavier stared at that familiar face for a good while, and in the end, he couldn't control the desire in his heart. Even though he knew she wasn't Skyler, he still wanted to keep her by his side. He uttered a sentence with difficulty, "Come closer."
Iris obediently walked over and stopped two steps away from him.
Zavier said, "Give me your right hand."
Zavier was pleased with the mole on her palm, and he kept looking at it, "Who taught you to say these things?"
Iris knew her sister had a mole in the palm of her right hand. She often heard family members discussing that the mole meant Skyler would bring bad luck to her husband. They were worried that Skyler might accidentally cause Zavier's death and the Blue family would have nothing to rely on. They all wanted to gain benefits from Zavier through Skyler, but no one ever cared about Skyler's situation.
When they heard about Skyler's accident in the middle of the night, their first reaction was not to check on her, but to figure out how to appease Zavier and not let him sever ties with the Blue family. So they brought their daughters here, seemingly willing to offer all their daughters to Zavier as his new lovers.
It was downright appalling!
She couldn't change any of this and had to follow their arrangements, saying things that contradicted her true feelings, "Nobody taught me. This is just how I think."
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Beautiful novel. Can we have a continuation of Zavier and Skyler's story? Them getting back together? Short story.......