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In the hospital.

Keira grabbed Isla’s hand.

Isla turned to look at her, “What’s wrong?”

Keira lowered her head, her expression obscured, but her helplessness and misery were palpable.

It was as if her emotional defenses had crumbled.

Yet the words she uttered next stunned Isla. “I won’t

do as you say.”

Isla frowned.

Poppy, consumed by anger, hit Keira hard on the back several times. “You ungrateful creature, what are you saying? How dare you say no to Miss Isla?! I’ll beat

to death!”

you

After enduring a few blows, Keira suddenly pushed her away with force.

Poppy staggered several steps backward and fell to the ground, then immediately jumped up. “Good heavens, you dare to lay a hand on me? I’m your mother!!”

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Her shrill voice finally got a reaction from Taylor.

He frowned and looked toward them, promptly stood up, then walked over to them. He glanced at Keira,

then at Isla, and finally at Poppy. “What are you arguing about?!”

Just as Poppy was about to speak, Taylor suddenly

raised his arm!

“Slap!”

He didn’t slap Poppy but instead struck Keira’s face

hard!

Keira hadn’t expected him to hit her, given how weak he appeared.

She held her cheek in shock, feeling the burning pain, and looked incredulously at Taylor.

Taylor’s gaze was grim as he glared at her. “It’s you again, it’s always because of you that our family is disrupted. Keira, why don’t you just die? Why are you here bothering Shirley!”

Keira let her hand covering her face slowly drop, and clenched her fist tightly. “You heard everything just now, right? It was Isla who carried someone else’s

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for causing her miscarriage. I’m just trying to prove my

you’re not! Even if Isla did something wrong, you have to take the blame for her!”

Poppy shouted, “Exactly, you owe that to the Olsens. If you want to sever ties with the Olsens and have nothing to do with us ever again, then strip off this flesh, remove your tendons and

return your flesh and blood to

tell you, your life was given by me, so it can only be mine! Unless you die, you can never escape my curse for the rest of your life! I’ll follow

her hands on

arrogant.

any of it. “We’ll deal with the future later. Today, I must restore my own

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the three people in

with resounding force, she said,

not bear any debts that are not mine, nor will I

true strength rising within her. “I couldn’t choose my birthright. I owe you a life, if you can,

her forcefulness and involuntarily took

on me over the years has been repaid long ago. I owe the Olsens nothing! All these lies were

those words, she turned

“Keira, you are not allowed to

Taylor also frowned.

stop Keira and could only turn to Poppy with tears

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Horton family will surely divorce me!

I might as well be dead!”

Poppy to

suddenly screamed, “Keira!

in her steps at all.

cry from Isla

in Poppy’s hand. She pressed against her own neck, her eyes almost crazed as she looked at Keira. “If you dare to go out and tell them the truth, die right here! Keira, do you really want to drive your own

steps faltered slightly.

looked at Poppy with only scorn in her

this her

she grew up and Poppy could no longer control her, she started to threaten her with her own

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Poppy and said softly, “Then go

few words made Poppy’s pupils contract.

Keira opened the door

and walked out.

soon as she stepped out, she saw a group of

as well as Oliver and Nathan, were

of them

how heartless Lewis, the CEO of Horton Group, is! His wife killed my grandson, and now she doesn’t even show a hint of guilt, but is instead very arrogant… We of the first branch of the family

made the reporters look solemn.

excitement flashing in their

era of the internet, public

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