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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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at a fixed time

what was going

the morning that 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.

be precise, he hadn’t slept in

more disheveled,

somehow less

made him

at a swift

flowing, his entire body jolted, and the pain that seemed suppressed deep within

water pouring over his face, and his fists

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shower, Lewis glanced outside at the

sky.

already 7 a.m. and

had an appointment with Keira that day to get their

divorce.

just regained. weighed on him

well

she sent made

was suddenly unpredictable.

was that

didn’t they want her

her melancholy over the impending divorce faded without

dressed and went downstairs.

nanny came in. “Miss, someone outside wants to see you.”

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it be?

it be the person who sent the text? They did say they would come to see her

meet the other party at eleven

She went outside.

in front of her, she

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

the person who had sent

that wasn’t

suddenly realized that the person who sent her the text message last night said their child had just fallen asleep and needed to be quiet, meaning that the child

in front of her

she thought about this,

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her arm. “Mrs. Horton, you’re

Mrs. Horton, right?”

“Who

“I’m Madeleine’s mother!”

Keira immediately realized trouble was

for not sleeping well the last two

slower, allowing the woman to

door, but the woman had already clung tightly to her

anything to talk about with

suddenly popped out from around the corner, all pointing their

live streaming, and the whole internet is following your and Mr. Horton’s situation. We want to know, what exactly is going

he had a girlfriend when you were

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