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Keira ended the call and looked toward Lewis, her

eyes astonishingly bright after just shedding tears.

“Mrs. Olsen is awake.” ”

Lewis subconsciously turned to glance in the direction of the bedroom, hesitating, “I…”

“You stay here and take care of Grandma. I’ll go back

and see her.”

Keira didn’t want to make it difficult for him and

simply left those words before walking out.

Lewis didn’t insist and said to Tom, “Take Keira there.”

Sitting in the car, Keira was extremely anxious. She, who always drove at a steady thirty miles per hour, now wished the car could go faster.

Half an hour later, the car arrived at the hospital’s inpatient building.

Just as Keira was about to run upstairs after getting out of the car, her steps faltered slightly, and she instinctively glanced toward the parking lot.

She saw that the spot where Uncle Olsen’s car had

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been parked was now empty

Presumably, Uncle Olsen had already returned to

Clance?

This thought merely flickered by, and Keira entered the building and sprinted to the third floor.

Standing breathlessly at the doorway, she saw Taylor both crying and laughing as he fed Mrs. Olsen water, while Mrs. Olsen looked at him in resignation.

Hearing footsteps, Mrs. Olsen slightly turned her head, looking toward the door.

For a moment, their gazes locked.

Keira felt as if she were rooted to the spot, unable to

move.

She stared blankly at Mrs. Olsen.

Her emotions were indescribably tumultuous and

complex.

As a child, every time she saw Mrs. Olsen speak gently to Isla, she was envious. She had often thought, how

wonderful would it be if Mrs. Olsen were her mother?

She had never imagined that one day this dream

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would come true.

look in Mrs. Olsen’s

tender warmth and deep affection she had for

tingle again, and her

knowing what to

even felt the situation was somewhat awkward, Mrs. Olsen suddenly

flushed with a

a good

said softly, “Keira, why are you

Come over here…”

her emotions any longer and walked stiffly over,

the side of the bed, “Sit.”

sat down like a puppet, still staring blankly at

Mrs. Olsen.

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of her felt like

come too fast, overwhelming her after 22 years of

spoke first. “Keira,

startled. “Why?”

you, and you were secretly swapped at birth. Even though you were always in front of me, I couldn’t recognize you. I watched you

with emotion. “Keira, I don’t ask for your

Mother…

flowing again. She suddenly stepped forward and hugged Mrs. Olsen tightly. “I’ve never blamed you. I— I’m so happy. You have no idea how delighted I was when

girl, are you

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her mouth and called

out, “Mom.”

“I’m here.”

Keira felt it was surreal, fearing everything in front of her

“I’m here.”

her grip and called her

“I’m here.”

suddenly felt

she was about to say something more, Taylor said, “Keira, your mom just

her own emotions.

tears, stepped back from Mrs. Olsen, and then looked at her with a smile,

eyes, reached out to touch her face. “I’m fine. I just

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Hill would be such a person! I shouldn’t have been kind-hearted at that moment, to

said this, she coughed.

“Alright, alright,

deserves! I heard her legs

one of her arms was

hospital for the rest of her life, never to escape!”

this, she looked toward

also

as Mrs. Olsen had raised Isla for so many years and

loved her.

words, Mrs. Olsen’s eyes did soften a

me her fate. She took the

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