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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

number.

while later, the director

answered, and the director’s voice came

Miss Davis is trying to kill hersel again!”

patient is

doctor.”

director was

remained fixed ahead. “Don’t come to me again

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“Right? Okay, okay.”

response, but after the shock, he

but went home

sneaked a peek at old Mrs. Horton, and, seeing that she was

the guest bedroom but was caught by Lewis’s

deeply into her eyes. “Keira, tonight let’s

pupils shrank, and her heartbeat suddenly

adults. Of course,

what Lewis meant…

a bed

suppressed the shyness in her,

turned her head, her face

room, a bit

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door behind her

the man embraced

Keira was startled.

already so

she

tight, burying his head in the crook of her

moves.

man laugh and say,

also very

expected that Lewis would

brought up Madeleine and he

was quite good…

wrapped her arms around his waist, feeling his heartbeat. “I’m very happy too.”

was Lewis’s way of confessing his

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substantial progress between the two; they just held each other

his restraint and self-control, as

and thought it was better

next

branch came to join

Lewis and Keira hadn’t yet gotten up, old Mrs. Horton immediately smiled so wide her eyes nearly

and after returning they both entered Lewis’s room. That was what Fiona informed her first thing in the morning.

truly delighted from the bottom of her

heart!

but frown. “Sister-in-law, the elders are at home, and your granddaughter-in-law

un this late does

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round

was worried Keira might neglect old

granddaughter-in-law is remarkable, not just dutiful and

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