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Keira was momentarily dumbfounded.

By her side, Lewis had already walked over, glancing inconspicuously at her card as he asked, “Is it from the same person who sent you the token of commitment?” Keira found it amusing and handed him the card.

After seeing Uncle Olsen’s name, Lewis cleared his throat and complained, “Why would an elder send roses?”

Keira sighed silently.

So, sending flowers to charm a girl was a universal tactic?

But she wasn’t really angry with Uncle Olsen. After a he had done it to stand up for Mrs. Olsen…

She just felt that if Mrs. Olsen and Uncle Olsen didn meet, and she went to meet and chat with Uncle Olsen, it might upset her mother.

She quietly turned to the butler, “Please put these flowers in the living room.”

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Nine hundred and ninety-nine roses were simply too

many.

The butler nodded and carried the flowers out.

Only after he left did Keira look around Lewis’s room. This bedroom of Lewis’s wasn’t actually the family head’s room; the room that Oliver was living in was. As soon as Oliver got married, Nathan immediately vacated the place for him and Melissa, sending a clear signal to the outside world: Oliver was to be the future family head.

Unfortunately for Oliver, Lewis snatched the position of the family head. Initially, Nathan, using the excuse of Lewis not being married, didn’t let Oliver give up the

room…

Later, after Lewis got married, they occupied the master bedroom under the pretext that Lewis’s wife

was a

and hadn’t returned home.

Now, they simply didn’t mention the matter at all.

Lewis didn’t care about such things.

The main house had four floors in total, with over a

dozen rooms on each floor which were more than

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enough.

The room’s decor was a minimalist style in black,

white, and gray. Besides the necessary furniture, there was only one bed.

Keira immediately looked toward Lewis. “…Where are you going to sleep?”

“…” Lewis glanced at the bed.

Keira cleared her throat, “We’re not close enough to the point where we can share a bed, right?”

Thinking back to the kiss made her extremely embarrassed.

Lewis cleared his throat and pointed at the sofa nearby, “I’ll sleep on the sofa.”

a sigh of relief.

spacious; he wouldn’t feel cramped sleeping on

thought she wouldn’t be able to sleep, but the soft bed was filled with Lewis’s fresh, grassy scent, which lulled her into

tough for Lewis

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he loved was only a few steps away, yet he frustratingly couldn’t touch

the next day, Keira met his slightly resentful gaze. Seeing the redness in the whites

Π

the two went downstairs to visit

checked her phone and saw a message from Corey Mills. “Director Nora, we’ve cleared up the case of Logan Lee pilfering the

this, Keira looked down and

was nothing but Lewis’s compromise since

spoke casually, he was always worried

night, he occasionally checked the

she was the one

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let Selena earn a

“Bring the

immediately.”

Mills wrote, “Understood.”

this moment, Oliver and Selena were talking inside old Mrs. Horton’s

back, Oliver asked, “How’s it

I find her quite sharp. Every time we

this spot really took a lot o effort; we can’t end up

this. After all these years, even if she’s become senile, her heart has always been

smiled. “I knew you loved me the most, Dad.”

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and then said, “I see you’ve emptied the old lady of all her jewelry; those are useless. Her most important things

hesitated, “But what’s

for a moment and then spoke,

lit up.

Horton’s bedroom, made an excuse to send Fiona away, and then

Password incorrect.

entered the date in reverse order; she then heard a “click”, and the correct password unlocked the safe!

up as she opened

all sorts of important documents. After flipping through

took out a bag and began to stuff the property deeds

inst then….

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“Woof!”

dog barked, and a puppy pounced in front of her, biting at her hand!

surprise and instinctively flung the dog

grown, was fiercely loyal and bit down hard, refusing to let

“Let go!”

several

rushed in!

the open safe, and her pupils shrank. She quickly went over to close it, while Oliver approached the puppy and kicked

you bite people!”

Bang!

ground

roll on ground and lunged at

teeth.

intimidating, but its little form

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