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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.

beside him immediately made a pleading gesture. “Mr. Horton, we’ve barely snatched her back from

jaw and glanced

conveyed hesitation and conflict.

clenched her fists

as Lewis accompanied

ICU, looking inside through

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meters apart, but that glass door seemed to

nurses shuttled back and forth, checking Madeleine’s vital

couldn’t hear the outside conversations.

group of

a medical miracle that we were able

life!”

She’s had the equivalent of four blood transfusions; she’s lucky to be alive. There was one bleeding point we couldn’t find, and

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

came for the consultation and didn’t

mental hospital next door…

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around

she takes. It 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 attempted

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

treating her for five or six years, and they were

Horton has fallen

else now?”

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

only hope.

he? Why is it that the patient

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seems Mrs. 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 she was in when she was brought

look at…”

away, heading to another ward to continue their

tense her jaw, wanting to say something, yet

say.

She understood Lewis.

had chosen her over

deeply.

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

was a

her,

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a childhood promise really

a single promise

his entire life?

suddenly thought of that “big

with that “big brother” was

to 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

to find her.

only hope to keep

grew up that she understood relying on others could

well now, so she had moved on.

slightly weaker

perhaps someone else in her shoes wouldn’t have

her head, lost in thought.

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