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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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a fixed time every

what was going

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

run.

precise, he hadn’t slept in two nights.

disheveled, and his run

somehow less exhilarating.

frustration suddenly made him speed up,

a

he returned to the bedroom drenched in sweat did he step into the shower, as the cold water started flowing, his entire body jolted, and the pain that seemed suppressed

looked up, the shower’s water pouring over his face, and his fists tightly clenched.

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Lewis glanced outside at

sky.

7 a.m. and

Keira that day

divorce.

the calm he had just regained. weighed on him

sleep well that

text message she sent made her feel the situation

was suddenly unpredictable.

that

want her to divorce?

faded without her

and went downstairs.

breakfast, the nanny came in. “Miss, someone

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Looking for

it

They did say

at eleven in the morning.

She went outside.

door and saw the woman in front of her, she

in her fifties. She was dressed plainly and probably from the

the person who had

that wasn’t

their child had just fallen asleep and needed to be quiet, meaning that the child

fifty-year-old in front of her wasn’t

this,

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Looking

arm. “Mrs.

Mrs. Horton, right?”

frowned, “Who are

“I’m Madeleine’s mother!”

finished speaking, Keira immediately realized trouble

not sleeping well the last

made her mind a half-beat slower, allowing the woman to seize an opportunity.

and close the door, but the woman had already clung tightly to her clothes, “Mrs.

“I don’t have anything to talk about with

popped out from around the corner, all pointing

the whole internet is following your and Mr. Horton’s situation. We want

he had a girlfriend when you were

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