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Keira looked at Lewis in surprise.

When he came, he had casually mentioned that

Madeleine had saved his life, but he hadn’t shared the

details.

Had it also been a case of abduction and trafficking…?

Only, unlike her own situation, had he nearly been

killed at the time?

If that were the case, then this would indeed be considered a life-saving grace.

No wonder Lewis was so accommodating toward

Madeleine.

While she was thinking, Lewis had already started to speak, his voice deep and gentle, with a hint of tenderness. “Sorry, I misspoke.”

He still held Keira’s hand tightly, his eyes having a complicated emotion as he looked at Madeleine, and explained earnestly, “I thought that a childhood promise is still a promise. Although I don’t love you, could stay unmarried for a lifetime, and be there for

I

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you when you need me, but I didn’t expect to have a marriage arrangement with Keira, nor did I expect to fall in love with her. I’ve thought about this for a long

time.”

He spoke slowly, with deliberate pauses. “Between you and her, I’m destined to let one down, so I choose her.

“Miss Davis, I won’t come to see you anymore, and you don’t have to call me either. I won’t stop paying your medical expenses, and you can ask the director for anything you need. Besides companionship, I’ll try to meet all your material needs!”

Upon hearing this, Madeleine’s face turned pale.

After leaving those words, he didn’t give Madeleine a chance to speak any further and pulled Keira away.

Keira left the hospital room with him, and suddenly, the desperate, heartbreaking cries of Madeleine came

from behind them.

Unfortunately, Lewis never looked back.

Keira was no saint; she didn’t feel pity for Madeleine and only found her pitiful.

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heartlessly rejecting Madeleine at this moment was because of his deep affection for Keira.

She looked at Lewis holding her hand and squeezed back firmly.

She thought, as long as Lewis didn’t let go of her hand, perhaps she would never let go of his hand in this lifetime…

The two left the hospital and drove away.

On the road, Lewis’s phone kept ringing.

it and then blocked Madeleine’s

number.

the

answered, and the

Miss Davis is

is yours. I’m not

doctor.”

director was

“Don’t come to me again in the

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“Right? Okay, okay.”

but after the shock,

anything but

parking the car, they sneaked a peek at old Mrs. Horton, and, seeing

go to the guest bedroom but was

looked deeply into her eyes. “Keira, tonight

and her heartbeat suddenly began

Of

what Lewis meant…

start sharing a bed with

suppressed the shyness in her,

She then turned

Lewis’s room,

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door behind her slammed

immediately the man embraced her

Keira was startled.

was already

as she thought about this, she sensed that something was

her tight, burying his head in the crook of her

moves.

then heard the man laugh and say, “Keira, I’m very

also

expected that Lewis would take such

up Madeleine and he had already made

quite

feeling his heartbeat. “I’m very happy

Lewis’s way of confessing his love to

wasn’t it?

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night, there was no substantial progress between the

self-control, as she stifled a

quite ready mentally and thought it was better

next

came to join old

Mrs. Horton

both entered Lewis’s room. That was what

was truly delighted from the bottom of

heart!

frown. “Sister-in-law, the elders are at

late does she

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worried Keira might neglect

I’ve told you, my granddaughter-in-law is remarkable, not just dutiful and

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