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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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fixed time every morning!

was going

go to sleep. His gaze merely

run.

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

disheveled, and his run

somehow less

made him speed up,

kilometers at 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 like a

up, the shower’s water pouring over his

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shower, Lewis glanced outside

sky.

already 7 a.m.

Keira

divorce.

about this, the calm he had just

well that night either.

sent made her

was suddenly unpredictable.

was that stranger?

they want her to divorce?

over the impending divorce faded without her noticing, leaving her in intense contemplation.

dressed and

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

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it

the text? They did say they would come to see

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

She went outside.

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

was dressed plainly and probably

person who had sent

wasn’t right…

night said their child had just fallen asleep and needed to be

in front of

as she thought about this, the

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arm. “Mrs. Horton,

Mrs. Horton, right?”

frowned, “Who are you?”

“I’m Madeleine’s mother!”

Keira immediately realized trouble

blamed herself for not sleeping well the

which made her mind a half-beat slower, allowing the woman to

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

anything to talk

three or four reporters suddenly popped

following your and Mr. Horton’s situation. We want to know,

know he had a girlfriend when you were

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