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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.

glanced at it and then blocked

number.

little while later, the director called him…

and the director’s voice

Horton, Miss Davis is trying to kill hersel again!”

indifferently, “The patient is yours. I’m not a

doctor.”

was startled.

gaze remained fixed ahead. “Don’t come to

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“Right? Okay, okay.”

surprised by his cold response, but after the shock, he

but went home

Horton, and, seeing

to the guest bedroom but was caught by Lewis’s tight

man looked deeply into her eyes. “Keira, tonight let’s become real

pupils shrank, and her heartbeat

were both adults. Of

what Lewis meant…

start sharing a bed with him

the shyness in her, coughed,

follow her own desires. She then turned her head, her

Lewis’s room,

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the door behind her slammed

immediately the man embraced

Keira was startled.

was already so impatient?

as she thought about this, she sensed that

holding her tight, burying his head in the crook of her shoulder without any further

moves.

sigh of relief, then heard the man laugh and say, “Keira, I’m

was also very

expected that Lewis would take such

Madeleine and

quite good…

feeling his heartbeat. “I’m very happy too.”

of confessing his

wasn’t it?

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progress between the two; they just held each other and slept.

could feel his restraint and self-control, as she stifled a

she wasn’t quite ready mentally and thought it

next

to join old Mrs. Horton for breakfast.

gotten up, old Mrs. Horton immediately smiled so wide her eyes nearly

after returning they both entered Lewis’s room. That was what Fiona

from the

heart!

elders are at

does she usually respect

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round

worried Keira might neglect

is remarkable, not just dutiful and kind, but also not someone to be trifled with. Normally, she even helps me

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