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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 for

a fixed

what was

to sleep. His gaze merely flicked over the package in front of him before he changed his clothes and went

run.

night… To be precise, he hadn’t slept in two nights.

somewhat more disheveled,

somehow less

him speed

kilometers at a swift

flowing, his entire body jolted, and the pain that seemed suppressed deep within erupted like a valve

pouring over his

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Lewis glanced outside

sky.

a.m. and broad daylight.

appointment with Keira that day to

divorce.

about this, the calm he had just

didn’t sleep well that night either.

she sent made her feel

was suddenly unpredictable.

was that stranger?

want

melancholy over the impending divorce faded without her

got dressed and

“Miss, someone outside wants

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could it be?

the person who sent the text? They did say

meet the other party at eleven in the morning. Had they arrived early?

She went outside.

the door and saw the woman in front of her, she

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

this the person who had sent her the text message?

that wasn’t

who sent her the text message last night said their child had just fallen asleep and needed to be quiet, meaning that the child was still young.

fifty-year-old in front of her wasn’t

thought about this, the woman

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

Mrs. Horton, right?”

frowned, “Who are

“I’m Madeleine’s mother!”

the middle-aged woman finished speaking, Keira immediately realized

blamed herself for not sleeping well the last

slower, allowing

the door, but the woman had already clung tightly to her clothes, “Mrs. Horton, let’s talk…”

indifferently, “I don’t have anything to

said this than three or four reporters suddenly popped out from around the corner, all pointing their cameras at her.

Horton, I’m live streaming, and the whole internet is following your and Mr. Horton’s situation. We want to know, what

he had a girlfriend

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