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Lewis knew Keira was trying to comfort him, so he played along and changed the subject.

Keira then began. “I was also abducted when I was a child and was locked up with an older brother…”

Abducted?

Lewis was slightly startled. “How old were you then?”

Keira was about to answer, but Madeleine suddenly coughed, and her body began to twist!

“Oh no! Blood has entered the trachea! Arrange for emergency thoracotomy immediately!”

Madeleine was issued the fifth critical condition

notice.

Lewis’s attention was immediately diverted, and once again, he stared intently at the hospital bed.

Keira no longer had the mind to talk about the past.

It was hard to tell how much time had passed. It could have been three hours or perhaps five, but Madeleine was finally resuscitated.

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When the doctor said there was no immediate danger to her life, Keira let out a huge sigh of relief.

She turned her head and saw Lewis’s clenched fists slowly relax…

Keira gently patted the back of his hand in

reassurance.

Lewis then gave a wry smile.

Madeleine had fractures all over her body, and her internal organs were also ruptured in many places. When she was wheeled out of the operating room, she seemed to regain some sense of feeling; even though. she was unconscious, she was flailing her arms and calling out, “Lewis…”

Her thrashing around made it impossible for the

doctor and nurses to continue with the IV.

The doctor held her hand, but she kept calling out, “Big brother…”

She struggled vigorously, trying to grasp something.

The doctor urgently said, “Mr. Horton, we must calm her down or else we won’t be able to save the life we just brought back!”

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Lewis gazed at her for a long time and finally stepped forward. “I’m here.”

The uneasy Madeleine immediately calmed down, seemingly sensing his voice, and subconsciously grabbed Lewis’s hand.

Lewis tried to pull his hand away, but Madeleine immediately furrowed her brows. “Big brother…”

Those words reminded him of the little girl curling up in his arms to sleep when they were children.

Lewis paused.

made a pleading gesture. “Mr. Horton, we’ve barely snatched her back from the hands of

and glanced

eyes conveyed hesitation and conflict.

her fists

a word, she watched as Lewis accompanied Madeleine to

outside the ICU, looking

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few meters apart, but that glass door seemed to isolate them from one another.

shuttled back and forth, checking Madeleine’s vital signs every

couldn’t hear the

Keira could hear a group of specialist

we were able to save

life!”

Horton is willing to spend the money. She’s had the equivalent of four blood transfusions; she’s lucky to

though her life was saved, she’ll have a lifelong disability. I just don’t understand why

came for the consultation and

from the mental hospital next door… I heard

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around and then

depression, and she simply can’t pull through, no matter how many medications she takes. It seems that her only hope for living was Mr. Horton… but Mr. Horton has now

nearby immediately asked curiously, “What

treating her

Mr. Horton has fallen in love

else now?”

with mental illness, who could bear that forever? It’s quite normal

he was the patient’s only hope. Once

has already married publicly, hasn’t he? Why is it

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wouldn’t see her again, and that’s why she was so upset and jumped off the building. The state she was in when she

look at…”

of people chatted as they walked away, heading to

tense her jaw, wanting to say something, yet not

say.

She understood Lewis.

over

deeply.

now, it wasn’t just about him; even seeing Madeleine lying on the hospital bed

was a

still alive and arguing with her, and today, her life

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childhood promise really

to let a

his entire life?

suddenly thought of that “big brother.”

that “big brother” was actually

Lewis and Madeleine’s

then, she had saved that “big brother”, and he had promised to marry her

the years, that “big brother” had never come

to find her.

indeed been her only hope to keep living after she returned

that she understood relying on others could never compare

was doing well now, so

even slightly weaker or

perhaps someone else in her shoes

head, lost in

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