Breaking Free from the Ex-Husband novel Chapter 209

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Heriberto did have a social engagement tonight, well, not really a social engagement, because he had dinner with Marie’s former housekeeper.

He asked Brogan to check Marie’s relationship with Merlin before she died, Brogan checked for almost half a month, but made no progress.

Marie passed away many years ago. During her lifetime, she rarely met Merlin, and she didn’t even know about the relationship between him and Nikolas.

Brogan had a hard time finding anything useful.

Luckily, he found Marie’s former housekeeper.

Before Marie got sick, she was living at the Aguilera’s mansion.

Nikolas and Gloria thought the Aguilera’s mansion was run–down, so they bought a big villa outside and moved out early.

Later, the Aguilera family went bankrupt, Nikolas was broke, and he decided to rob the Aguilera’s mansion.

After Marie got sick, he sent her to a sanatorium, then he sold the Aguilera’s mansion, and he also dismissed all the servants in the Aguilera’s mansion.

Marie only stayed in the nursing home for a year, and then she was driven crazy by Nikolas and his wife.

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Yes, he didn’t die from illness, he died from anger.

The Aguilera’s mansion’s housekeeper was someone Marie trusted a lot when she was alive. The housekeeper probably knew a lot about Marie’s affairs.

Brogan also had to put in some effort to find this old butler.

After finding the old butler, he reported to Heriberto.

Heriberto thought about it and decided to meet the old butler in

person.

When he arrived at the restaurant, the Aguilera family’s old butler was already there, waiting for her in the private room. Accompanying the old butler was his grandson.

Heriberto’s conversation with the old butler was not something for outsiders to know, so Brogan called the old butler’s grandson to leave the room together.

“Quinton, please have a seat,” said Heriberto, gesturing for the others to leave.

Quinton was already in his seventies, but he was still sharp and lively.

Quinton smiled and nodded as he sat down, looking kindly at Heriberto and said, “Mr. Hale, you asked someone to find me, so you must have something to ask me in person, right?”

Quinton naturally knew Heriberto.

Heriberto was raised by Eleanor since he was young. Marie and Eleanor have been best friends for many years. Eleanor naturally took Heriberto to the Aguilera’s mansion to see Marie.

Actually, before Iris met Heriberto, he had already seen Iris at the

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Aguilera’s mansion, but Iris didn’t know at that time.

“Quinton, how have you been these years?” Heriberto greeted, not getting straight to the point.

Quinton smiled and said, “She’s pretty good, Madam Aguilera is a kind person, generous to us servants. When I used to work for Madam Aguilera, she gave me a lot of bonuses, enough to live comfortably for the rest of my life.”

Heriberto poured tea for Quinton, nodded, and asked, “Quinton, you’ve been by Madam Aguilera’s side for years, you must remember Merlin, right?”

“…Merlin,” Quinton squinted as he recalled, “Oh, Sir Knighton.”

He remembered, Heriberto breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said, “Quinton, you remember.”

“I remember, I remember,” Quinton nodded happily, “When Madam Aguilera was alive, she did a lot of good deeds, sponsored many orphans, Sir Knighton was one of them.”

“Merlin was an orphan sponsored by Madam Aguilera?” Heriberto exclaimed.

Why did Brogan search for half a month and still couldn’t find this information, even didn’t find out that Merlin used to be an orphan.

It seems like Merlin intentionally erased all this information.

“Yeah, Sir Knighton did really well, he was very studious, got into a top foreign university, and Madam Aguilera supported and nurtured him all the way to success.”

Quinton nodded, squinted his eyes and said, “But, Sir Knion didn’t really come to the Aguilera’s mansion much, I remember just once, that

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was before he went abroad to study, he came to see Madam Aguilera on purpose to thank her, after going abroad, he never came to see Madam Aguilera again, he did come once to Madam Aguilera’s funeral though.”

Actually, there was another time, it was when Marie had just been admitted to the nursing home, Quinton just didn’t know.

Heriberto suddenly realized, finally figured out, Merlin and Zayden, they had to help protect Iris like this.

Originally, Marie owed Merlin a favor for saving her.

“What did Quinton and Merlin say when they saw Madam Aguilera, do you remember?” he asked.

Quinton thought for a moment, shook his head, “It’s been too long, I’ve forgotten.”

Yeah, it’s been thirty or forty years. Quinton still remembers that Merlin was an orphan sponsored by Marie, which is quite impressive.

At that moment, there was a knock on the door, and eight waiters entered in a single file carrying dishes.

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