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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

today… what was

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 clothes and went out for a

run.

sleepless night… To be precise, he

disheveled, and his run

somehow less exhilarating.

him

a swift

flowing, his entire body jolted, and the pain that seemed suppressed deep within erupted like a valve had been opened

looked up, the shower’s water pouring over his face, and his fists tightly clenched.

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shower, Lewis glanced outside at the

sky.

a.m. and broad daylight.

appointment with Keira that

divorce.

this, the calm he had just regained. weighed on

didn’t sleep well that night either.

message she sent made her

was suddenly unpredictable.

was that stranger?

want her to divorce?

over the impending divorce faded without her noticing, leaving

got dressed and went downstairs.

“Miss, someone outside wants to

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it be?

text? They did say they would come to see

the other party at eleven in the morning. Had they arrived

She went outside.

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

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

had sent her the

that wasn’t

who sent her the text message last night said their child had just fallen asleep and needed to be

of

as she thought about this,

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over, grabbing her arm.

Mrs. Horton, right?”

frowned, “Who

“I’m Madeleine’s mother!”

middle-aged woman finished speaking, Keira immediately realized

herself for not sleeping

slower, allowing the woman

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

have anything to

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

said, “Mrs. Horton, I’m live streaming, and the whole internet is following your and Mr.

a girlfriend when you were with

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