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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

was going on?

working, but he didn’t go to sleep. His gaze merely flicked over the package in front of him before he changed his clothes and went out for

run.

night… To be precise, he hadn’t

more disheveled, and his

less exhilarating.

frustration suddenly made him speed up,

kilometers at a swift

when 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 deep within erupted like a valve had been

the shower’s water pouring over

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a shower, Lewis glanced outside

sky.

already 7 a.m. and broad

an appointment with Keira that day to get their

divorce.

had just regained. weighed on him once

didn’t sleep well

sent made her

was suddenly unpredictable.

that

they want

the impending divorce faded without her noticing,

dressed and went

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

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it be?

be the person who sent the text? They did

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

She went outside.

woman in

her was a slender woman in her fifties. She was dressed

this the person who had sent her the

wasn’t right…

who sent her the text message last night said their child had just fallen

of her wasn’t that

this, the woman had

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arm.

Mrs. Horton, right?”

frowned, “Who are

“I’m Madeleine’s mother!”

finished speaking, Keira immediately realized trouble

not sleeping well the last two

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

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

indifferently, “I don’t have anything to talk

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

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

a girlfriend when you were

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