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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

what was going on?

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

run.

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

seemed somewhat more disheveled, and

somehow less exhilarating.

made him speed up, dashing

a swift

sweat did he step into the shower, as the cold water started flowing, his entire body jolted, and the pain that seemed suppressed deep within erupted

pouring over his face, and his fists

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taking a shower, Lewis glanced outside

sky.

a.m. and broad

appointment with Keira that day to get

divorce.

about this, the calm he had just

sleep well that

text message she sent made her feel

was suddenly unpredictable.

was that

want

issues, her melancholy over the impending divorce faded without her noticing,

and went downstairs.

came in. “Miss, someone outside wants to see

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it

sent the text? They

arranged to meet the other party at eleven in the morning.

She went outside.

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

slender woman in her fifties. She was dressed plainly and probably from the countryside. She stood there timidly and

person who had sent her the text message?

wasn’t

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

fifty-year-old in front of her wasn’t that

about this, the woman

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her arm. “Mrs.

Mrs. Horton, right?”

frowned, “Who

“I’m Madeleine’s mother!”

woman finished speaking, Keira

herself for not sleeping well

mind a half-beat slower, allowing the woman to seize

retreat and close the door, but the woman had already clung tightly to her

“I don’t have anything

three or four reporters suddenly popped

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

a girlfriend

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