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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 morning!

today… what was

light up in the morning that Lewis stopped working, but he didn’t go to sleep. His gaze merely flicked

run.

precise, he hadn’t slept in two

somewhat more disheveled, and his run

less

made him

at a

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 deep within erupted

pouring over his face, and his fists tightly

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taking a shower, Lewis

sky.

7 a.m. and

had an appointment with Keira that day to get

divorce.

this, the calm he had just regained. weighed

sleep well

sent made her feel the

was suddenly unpredictable.

was that

want her to

these issues, her melancholy over the impending divorce faded

and went downstairs.

after breakfast, the nanny came in. “Miss, someone outside

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could it be?

They did say they would come to see

she had arranged to meet the other party at eleven in the morning. Had

She went outside.

door and saw the woman in front of her,

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

the person who had sent her the text message?

wasn’t right…

who sent her the text message last night said their child

of her wasn’t that

thought about this, the woman had already

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arm. “Mrs. Horton, you’re

Mrs. Horton, right?”

“Who

“I’m Madeleine’s mother!”

the middle-aged woman finished speaking, Keira immediately

herself for not sleeping well the last two

her mind a half-beat slower,

woman had already clung tightly to her clothes, “Mrs. Horton, let’s

indifferently, “I don’t have anything to talk about with

or four reporters suddenly popped out from around the corner, all pointing their cameras

following your and Mr. Horton’s situation. We want

had a girlfriend when you

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