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The driver from the Horton’s old house had been

waiting all day.”

He intended to just hand the delivery to Fiona and leave, but Mr. Horton insisted he deliver it personally

to Lewis!

So he ended up waiting all day long.

Fiona said Lewis usually came back at noon, yet today, of all days, he didn’t come back in time. He arrived by car at midnight the previous night, exhausted out of

his mind.

He even dozed off outside under the sun!

Rubbing his eyes, the driver handed the package to Lewis and immediately went to sleep in the room Fiona had arranged for him!

Lewis was slightly startled.

He looked down at the package in his hand but felt nothing.

The courier had made the delivery directly, so there

was no name written on it.

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Lewis simply wondered what had been sent to the old family home…

He didn’t enter the bedroom with the package but went into his study and sent Tom a message. “Meeting.”

Busy with international affairs in the afternoon, he hadn’t dealt with company business.

That night, he was prepared to work overtime, keeping himself busy.

He didn’t want to leave himself any idle time for unfounded thoughts; only by keeping busy could he feel somewhat better.

It seemed he might avoid those troubling issues…

Lewis despised such behavior from himself.

Yet he couldn’t help but act this way.

After Tom called for an international meeting, five hours later, everyone was astonished.

It was 2 a.m. in the morning!

Lewis was normally very health-conscious, not wanting work reports after midnight, and he always

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Looking

at a fixed time every

was going

Lewis stopped working, but he didn’t go to sleep. His gaze merely flicked over the package in front of him

run.

night… To be precise, he hadn’t slept

somewhat more disheveled, and his

less

suddenly made him speed up, dashing

at a

flowing, his entire body jolted, and the pain that seemed

the shower’s water pouring over his face, and his fists tightly

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a shower, Lewis

sky.

already 7 a.m. and broad

with Keira that

divorce.

about this, the calm he had just regained. weighed

well that night

she sent made her feel the situation

was suddenly unpredictable.

that stranger?

want her

the impending divorce faded without her noticing, leaving her in intense

got dressed and went

came in. “Miss, someone

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it

be the person who sent the text? They did say they would

party at eleven in the morning. Had they arrived

She went outside.

woman in

her fifties. She was dressed plainly and probably from the countryside. She stood there timidly and uneasily.

who had

wasn’t

realized that the person who sent her the text message last night said their child had just

front of

about this, the woman had

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over, grabbing her arm. “Mrs. Horton, you’re

Mrs. Horton, right?”

frowned, “Who

“I’m Madeleine’s mother!”

the middle-aged woman finished speaking, Keira

herself for not sleeping well the last two

her mind a half-beat slower, allowing the

retreat and close the door, but the woman had already clung tightly to her clothes, “Mrs. Horton, let’s

don’t have anything to talk about with

sooner had she said this than three or four reporters suddenly popped out from

live streaming, and the whole internet is following your and Mr. Horton’s situation. We

he had a girlfriend

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