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“Keira Olsen, wake up. What’s wrong with you?”

The policewoman noticed Keira’s condition and nudged her.

Dazed, Keira opened her eyes.

The usually strong-willed woman was trembling from weakness. “Please help me to the bed.”

“Alright.”

The policewoman quickly assisted her to the bed and asked, “How do you feel now?”

Keira was in poor condition, and she wouldn’t pre even for Holly’s sake. She said, “I’m anemic. Get Ho Sims to do another blood test. It should show up no

At her words, the policewoman frowned, scrutinizing Keira. “Dr. Sims was angry. She probably won’t come

again.”

Keira pursed her lips. “Then you can draw my blood and send it for testing.”

The policewoman said, “Fine, I’ll get someone from the

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forensic department.”

Having said that, she left the cell.

As she was leaving, she was suddenly stopped by Poppy Hill, “Excuse me, Officer.”

The policewoman turned to her, “What is it?”

Poppy pointed to the ward where Keira was. “That’s my daughter. Is she unwell? Can I go look after her?”

The policewoman was taken aback. “She’s your daughter?”

Were mothers and daughters sharing prison cells these days?

Poppy nodded, “Yes, yes, that’s my daughter. You check our relationship.”

The policewoman took out her phone, logged into system, and verified their identities. They were inde mother and daughter.

The policewoman thought for a moment, recalling Keira’s condition, and said, “Alright.”

Keira, lying on the single bed, had just closed her eyes

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when the door was opened again.

Did the forensic doctor come so soon?

to see a figure walking in, followed by a chilling voice, “Keira,

Keira stiffened.

to her weakness, memories of when she was five years

enough warm clothes

got sick, Poppy would lock her away, not letting her go outside. Whenever Mrs. Olsen

medication.

Poppy would rush over to her, grab her throat, and force

her in her ear. “You don’t deserve medicine! Just live with your fever! Why don’t you

bitch! Aren’t you

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d

times, and you dared to defy me, throwing me into this jail.

you…”

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memory overlapped with the real-time murmur from the woman, causing Keira to instinctively huddle, just like when she was a child, wishing she could reduce herself

like she was back to being a five-year-old in that cold

room was dimly

to distinguish betweer reality and memory, with pleas for mercy from her dreams

she pleaded in a soft whisper. “Mom, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have gotten sick.

sharp pain still coursed through her

in front of her still pinched her arms, abdomen, and

her lips together

understood that pleading was useless, and

The pain persisted.

were unabated. “Die! Die! You killed my brother!

push away the woman forcefully, but she wasn’t strong

ten years old, eleven years

she was thirteen and had

school.

surpassed Poppy’s height. She pushed the woman away, saying, “Since you despise me as your daughter, I’m

few worn-out clothes and without hesitation, left the Olsen family…

was no home for her in the world,

and boundless. Everywhere

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family could be her home.

grew up, and she could protect

waking up from her

who was right

her.

throat, “Bitch, what are you looking at? You should die! You have to pay for killing my

grabbed Poppy’s wrist and forcefully pushed her away!

hard onto the ground. Just as she was about to

Holly, wide-eyed, standing at the door. She then unhurriedly entered

Poppy and

hallucinating? Were these two women

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to be

all her strength. She was sprawled out on the bed again without

I’m anemic…even if you

for intravenous infusion, and give

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