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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.

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

and glanced at Keira.

eyes conveyed hesitation

her fists tighter.

she watched as Lewis accompanied Madeleine to the

outside the ICU, looking inside through

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apart, but that glass door seemed to isolate them from one

and nurses shuttled back and forth, checking Madeleine’s vital

hear the outside

hear a group of specialist

miracle that we were able to

life!”

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

though her life was saved, she’ll have a lifelong disability.

came for the consultation

the mental hospital next door…

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doctor looked around

hope for living was Mr. Horton… but Mr. Horton has

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

Horton has been treating her for

has fallen in love with

else now?”

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

the patient’s only hope.

Why is it that the patient

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asked the attending doctor, and it 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

look at…”

group of people chatted as they walked away, heading

Keira tense her jaw, wanting to say

say.

She understood Lewis.

chosen her over Madeleine, which moved her

deeply.

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

a

her, and today, her life hung

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a childhood promise really that important?

let a single promise

his entire life?

thought of that

that “big brother” was actually

Lewis and Madeleine’s

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

years, that “big brother” had never come

to find her.

her only hope to keep living after she returned home.

that she understood relying on others could

doing well now, so

had been even slightly weaker or not

her shoes wouldn’t

her head,

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