Iris, 78, tries to give a special gift to her daughter’s fiancé when she sees him sneaking into the bathroom with a maid of honor. Iris follows them, and what she witnesses forces her to run to her daughter to cancel the wedding.
Iris was delighted that day. His daughter Eliza, 50, had everything ready to marry the love of her life, Daniel. So Iris went to her future son-in-law to give her her late husband’s diamond cufflinks before the marriage ceremony began.
But Daniel walked too fast, and Iris had to rush her sore knees to catch up with him. He saw how he approached Melissa, one of the bridesmaids and his partner, and whispered something to her.
Then, they both walked away from the place to the back of the restaurant. Curious, Iris stood on tiptoe behind them, only to see them enter a bathroom together…
Iris approached the bathroom and opened the door slightly, and her heart sank when she looked inside.
“I can’t wait any longer, baby,” Daniel said, and pulled Melissa’s waist, bringing her closer.
“Not now, honey,” Melissa sang. “If someone finds out, our plans will go to waste.”
“Do Daniel and Melissa have… an affair?” Iris shrank against the wall, shocked.
“Just once before I marry that boring Eliza,” Daniel added.
“Patience, honey… you just have to stay married for a couple of months. Think about the big pay we will receive when you divorce your boring wife. Millions of dollars in goods and cash… but all that only if you control yourself now!”
Iris leaned over and looked at Daniel and Melissa in the bathroom mirror. They were hugging and kissing passionately.
“Not now… honey… stop… no, stop!” Melissa murmured. “We have to go back to the party.”
“Not until you promise me that we’ll see each other at my house later,” Daniel said. “We will continue as always… meeting in secret after Eliza has gone to work!”
Melissa let out a chuckle before continuing to kiss. Unable to see or endure anymore, Iris hurried to warn her daughter that Daniel was a fortune hunter.
Iris hurried to the dining room, but Eliza wasn’t there. Suddenly, the master of ceremonies caught everyone’s attention.
“Before moving to the wedding hall, the bride has a special gift for the groom,” he announced.
Eliza appeared on stage and took the master of ceremonies’ microphone. “I know this is unorthodox,” he said.
“… I’ve waited a long time to find a man to spend the rest of my life with… and I want to dedicate this to him!”
While the band behind Eliza began to play the chords, she sang a melodious love song. There was silence in the room when Eliza finished singing.
The guests applauded, and Daniel ran up the stage and hugged her. Eliza looked at him as if he were the brightest star in the sky, and that sank Iris’s heart.
Iris knew that her daughter’s heart would be broken when she knew the truth about Daniel’s tejemanejes.
“What a beautiful moment,” the master of ceremonies interrupted the bustling wedding scene. “Let’s all go to the wedding hall so that these lovebirds can celebrate their first dance.”
Iris made her way through the crowd and approached her daughter. “Eliza, I have to tell you something… it’s about Daniel.”
“About Daniel? Is everything okay, mom?”
“Honey, it’s… I don’t know where to start. Can we talk in private?”
“Mom, Daniel is waiting for me. We’ll talk after the first dance, okay?”
“Honey, no, please wait…”.
“Are you ready, Eliza?” Melissa surrounded Iris and approached the bride. “Daniel is waiting for you in the ballroom.”
Eliza was gorgeous in her wedding dress as she followed Melissa to the door with a radiant smile. Iris was devastated and didn’t have the courage to break her daughter’s heart on her big day.
So he contemplated with agony the development of the wedding. He couldn’t do anything to bring Daniel and Melissa’s adventure to light. There was only one way to unmask that scoundrel: Iris had to make sure that Eliza caught her hands in the dough.
Eliza and Daniel took Iris to the airport the following Monday to take an early flight back home. Iris disliked seeing Daniel so affectionate with Eliza.
“You two go check in,” he said when they arrived at the airport. “I’ll follow you right away with your luggage, Iris.”
Iris nodded and Daniel left. It was the first time that Elisa and she were alone since the wedding. Iris was tempted to tell her daughter everything, but she decided to stick to her plan.
Daniel arrived with his luggage, and Iris said goodbye to Eliza with a hug before heading to the departure lounge. About fifteen minutes later, he called a taxi and returned to Eliza’s house.
Iris knew that Melissa and Daniel would meet after Eliza went to work, and decided to catch them red-handed.
When Iris arrived at Eliza’s house, she saw Melissa’s silver sedan parked at the entrance. Iris pressed her hand against the hood of the sedan and felt that the engine was still hot.
It was the perfect occasion to start his plan, and he quickly called Eliza.
“Honey, they’ve canceled my flight,” Iris told her daughter. “I ordered a taxi to your house… I feel very dizzy… Can you meet me at your house, please?”
“Oh, God, mom! I’m busy with something… but don’t worry. I’ll call Daniel and ask him to help you, okay?”
“No, don’t call him. I want you to come here… please, it’s important.”
Eliza sighed. “OK… I’ll be there in a few minutes.”
“Please, be quick,” Iris hung up and sneaked up on the window.
Iris looked through the glass and at first saw nothing strange. Then, the door opened and Daniel and Melissa entered the room, kissing.
He left her on the floor and the couple began to kiss on the couch.
Iris looked at the street, but there was still no trace of Elisa. She looked out the window and quickly looked away, disgusted, seeing how things had heated up between Daniel and Melissa.
Iris walked away and stood next to the sidewalk, praying that her daughter would arrive soon. Five minutes later, Eliza stopped.
“Mom, are you okay?” Eliza approached Iris.
“No, I’m not. Your husband and that Melissa. They’re in there… fooling around on the couch.”
“WHAT?” Eliza was stunned.
“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you before. I heard them on your wedding day. But I couldn’t do anything because I didn’t want to break your heart on such a special day.”
“Mom, what did you hear?”
“They have an affair… and they have planned to scam you and keep half of your money when Daniel leaves you,” Iris replied while Eliza was paralyzed.
“Daniel and Melissa?” Eliza’s breath trembled. “She has always been sweet and kind to me… how did she have no idea about this matter?”
“They’re in there right now…” Iris pointed to the door. “I know it’s hard to believe… why don’t you go see it with your own eyes?”
Eliza nodded dryly and dried her tears. She marched angrily towards the front door, and Iris was right behind her.
They tiptoed to the living room. The sound of Daniel and Melissa’s giggles behind the sofa echoed in the hallway. Eliza took a deep breath and came out from behind.
“What the hell is going on here?” he shouted.
Iris hurried in, but was surprised by the vision before her astonished eyes. It didn’t make any sense.
It was only a few minutes ago, when he looked out the window, Daniel and Melissa were absorbed in their intimate moment. But now they were carelessly sitting on the couch, as if nothing had happened.
“Eliza? What do you mean? Daniel replied. “Melissa and I were talking about an upcoming meeting… Didn’t I tell you that I would work from home this week?”
“A liar!” Iris pointed to Daniel. “I saw the two of them doing ‘things’ on that couch… I’m sure they saw us arrive.”
“Dress me”? Melissa frowned. “Jesus… do you think Daniel and I have… an affair?”
“Shut up,” Eliza said. “My mother saw them both in the bathroom on our wedding day… and now, in our house. You insisted a lot on sharing our assets and our money when we got married. And now I know why… Daniel, you married me for my money.”
“That’s not true!” Daniel denied the accusation. “Being married means sharing everything. What’s mine is yours, Eliza. I’m sorry that your mother thinks so badly of me… but she’s wrong. Melissa and I are friends and partners. Nothing more than that, okay? I thought you knew… and that you trusted me.”
“I knew it, Daniel. But why would my mother lie to me? It’s just that… I don’t understand it.”
“Eliza, I love you… and I can prove it,” Daniel took Eliza’s hand.
He put his hand in his pocket and took out a stead of keys.
“Do you see this?” He dropped the keys in the palm of Eliza’s hand. “Yesterday I made the final payment for our new house. Melissa came to help me with an idea to surprise you. But now everything is ruined.”
“You’re lying, Eliza,” Iris insisted as she watched Eliza lift the keys with her trembling fingers.
But Eliza didn’t seem to hear her mother. “Were you going to surprise me?” he whispered, staring into Daniel’s eyes.
“Yes! I wanted to take you there blindfolded… accompany you to the lawn… and show you the house of our dreams. But I guess I’ll stay there alone now. It doesn’t make sense to share my life with a woman who doesn’t trust me.”
Daniel snatched Eliza’s keys and went furiously to his bedroom.
“Wait, you can’t leave me like this,” Eliza ran after Daniel. “I don’t doubt you… but I know mom would never tell me something like that unless it was true.”
Daniel stopped and turned around. “I don’t know what your mother saw and heard. I have offered you evidence. If you still don’t believe me, I don’t think this marriage can last.”
“I trust you… that’s why it hurts me so much to think that you’re cheating on me. I love you, Daniel…”.
“I love you too,” Daniel said. “You are everything to me. I don’t understand what has failed for you to believe such horrible things about me. If you really think I’ve been unfaithful to you, tell me now. I’ll collect my things and leave you… forever.”
“I trust you! Please forgive me,” Eliza hugged Daniel while Iris couldn’t believe what she was hearing and seeing.
“Do you see that?” Melissa told Iris. “I don’t understand why you can’t let your daughter be happy.”
“How can you be so ruthless… and deny the truth so easily?” Iris got angry.
“You’re imagining things, Iris. You may need to have your eyesight checked.”
Iris’ heart raced. It was too much for her. His knees gave way as a dull pain spread through his chest. The last thing Iris heard was the penetrating rumble of the sirens of an ambulance.
They quickly took her to the hospital, where the doctors informed her that she had suffered a heart attack.
“You scared me, mom… I’m glad you’re well,” Eliza visited Iris and hugged her.
“I’ll feel much better if you tell me that you’ve kicked that scammer and his lover out of your life.”
Eliza rolled her eyes. “Mom, please don’t talk about my husband like that. You were wrong when talking about him…”.
“Ware up, Eliza. He’s just using you. All that nonsense of buying a house and threatening to leave you was his way of making you feel guilty so that you would stay.”
“But that shows that he loves me. Why would he want me to stay if he was just looking for my money?”
“Why don’t you check your prenuptial agreement, Eliza?” Iris said. “My God, how do I make you understand that your husband is a fortune hunter?”
“Mom, please, stop. I know you care about me. But let’s not assume things and punish Daniel for something he has never done.”
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“Well,” Iris said. “If you don’t want to open your eyes and see the reality around you, things will be different from now on.”
Iris picked up the phone and dialed a number.
“Hello, Mr. Simms… I’ll call you because of my will,” Iris told her lawyer. “I want to make an urgent change. I have decided to leave all my assets and my assets to charity. My daughter Eliza won’t inherit a penny. And I want you to freeze his bank account. Yes… immediately. Thank you.”
“What?” Eliza was dumbfounded. “You can’t be serious, mom.”
“I’m sorry, Eliza, but you haven’t left me any other choice. I don’t want our family’s money, earned so hard, to be given to a fortune hunter who uses you.”
“Okay!” Eliza shouted. “If you exclude me from your will, so be it. You don’t have a daughter anymore… and I don’t want to see you again.”
The following weeks were the most difficult for Iris. She had heart surgery and was discharged after a long period of recovery.
She felt very lonely and even tried to call Eliza several times. But her daughter never answered, and Iris’ heart was broken. However, Iris never stopped trying to connect with Eliza. He called her every day and texted her.
Iris was not surprised when there was no answer. But one day, the doorbell rang. When Iris opened the door, she was frozen with disbelief.
“Eliza?” Iris burst into tears when a wave of emotions flooded her. “I’m so glad to see you, honey…”
Iris stopped talking when Eliza looked at her with red and swollen eyes.
“It’s Daniel, right?” He wrapped his arms around Eliza’s shoulders and led her inside.
“I’m sorry, mom… I should have listened to you,” Eliza sobbed. “You were right about him!”
Iris hugged Eliza. He hated to see his daughter with such a broken heart, but he was glad that he had finally gotten rid of that greedy Daniel.
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