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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.

pleading gesture. “Mr. Horton,

his jaw and

eyes conveyed hesitation

her

word, she watched as Lewis accompanied Madeleine to the ICU

stood outside the ICU, looking inside

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few meters apart, but that glass door seemed

nurses shuttled back and forth, checking Madeleine’s

the outside

could hear a group of specialist

that we were able to save her

life!”

is willing to spend the money. She’s had the equivalent of four blood transfusions; she’s lucky to be alive. There was one bleeding

saved, she’ll have a lifelong disability. I just don’t understand

just came for the

the mental hospital next door… I heard from her attending doctor…”

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doctor looked around and

seems that her only hope for living was Mr. Horton… but Mr. Horton has now gotten married and doesn’t plan to see her anymore, so she

asked curiously, “What was her relationship with Mr. Horton?”

Horton has been treating her for five or six years, and they were previously

fallen in love with someone

else now?”

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

hope. Once he broke up with her,

hasn’t he? Why is it that the patient couldn’t take it just now?”

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Horton wasn’t pleased. Mr. Horton told the patient that he wouldn’t see her again, and that’s why she was so upset and jumped off the building. The state

look at…”

group of people chatted as they walked away, heading to another ward to continue their rounds.

made Keira tense her jaw, wanting to say something, yet

say.

She understood Lewis.

over Madeleine, which

deeply.

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

was a life!

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

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promise really

Lewis supposed to let a single promise drag

his entire life?

suddenly thought of that “big brother.”

“big brother”

Lewis and Madeleine’s

promised

that “big brother” had never

to find her.

her only hope to keep living after she

that she understood relying on others

doing well now, so she had moved on.

slightly weaker

someone else in her shoes wouldn’t have

lowered her head, lost in

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