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Keira stared dumbfounded at the marriage certificate

in her hand.

She suddenly realized, that the first time old Mrs. Horton saw her, she called her “granddaughter-in-law”. The old lady had known all along that Keira and Lewis were married!

Keira felt that she had found a clue.

She immediately asked, “Grandma, how did you come by this marriage certificate?”

Old Mrs. Horton was taken aback, her eyes growing a touch bewildered. “I… I can’t really remember.”

Keira continued. “How did Mr. Horton and I come to

be married?”

Old Mrs. Horton just shook her head. “I don’t recall:

Keira grew somewhat anxious. “Grandma, please try to

think back…”

“Enough!”

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Lewis said unhappily, his towering figure standing

between the two women. His eyes were cold when he asked, “Miss Olsen, is this certificate real?”

“Of course.”

Lewis’s face darkened. “Are you going to say we don’t need to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau now?”

So that was her aim!

She used a legitimate excuse like going to the Civil Affairs Bureau as a setup, then lured his grandma into taking out this fake certificate and tricking him into believing it was true.

If he hadn’t seen how his grandma just did as she was told, he might have believed Keira!

Keira sensed the hostility in the man’s tone and found it baffling. “We don’t have to go today.”

Divorce isn’t something that could be resolved by just stopping by the Civil Affairs Bureau.

For two years, they were legally husband and wife, so there were a lot of property distribution issues to deal with They needed to sign a divorce agreement first

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“No.”

spoke, he carefully observed

then she

confident in her acting that

this marriage certificate genuine?

the marriage certificate and headed out. “I’ll wait for you

smiled reassuringly at the old lady, then followed

she almost had to trot to keep

parking lot, they saw Poppy standing there with an ashen-faced Isla, who was shaking and sneezing.

Poppy’s eyes lit up. “Keira!”

over,

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said self-righteously, “You must

raised an eyebrow.

the two were out so early

in the morning.

they leave last

Poppy was already rambling.

the Olsen family didn’t mind your background and raised you. For all the hardship they went through, you should

to you. Not only did she let you go to school with her, but she also shared

have any milk, so you only survived because you took the milk that was supposed to be for your

then, the Olsen family hadn’t intended to take us in. Mrs. Olsen and your father only decided

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because you

sister were born the same

sister. You should repay her

hadn’t heard those words in ten years.

little, she believed these lies and worked like a horse for the Olsen family. She let Isla bully her.

but parents having to raise a child was a legal obligation. If they hadn’t taken care

of desertion!

school on their way to school and

for not taking good care of her, and she would get beaten by Poppy.

school, she could only get the last place in

Her parents never prepared any for

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her clothes were always a bit too

as soon as she put it on, it was taken off by Poppy and given to

for being

weak after being starved for

mockery in Keira’s eyes grew

added, “Now that you’ve grown up, you finally have a chance to repay the Olsen family. Keira, old Mrs. Horton listens to

looked down and laughed. “You’re

face lit up, thinking she had convinced Keira, only to hear the girl’s indifferent voice a moment later.

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just a lowborn illegitimate daughter. How could old Mrs. Horton possibly

but Keira had already walked past her and got into

“Let’s go.”

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