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Lewis was striding toward his car at this moment.”

He looked down at his phone.

On the phone was a live broadcast from the entrance

of the Olsen residence.

Madeleine’s mother had driven Keira into a corner!

Lewis was very anxious, so much so that when he heard the driver’s words, without a second thought, he

drove away immediately!

Now, the reporters on the phone were giving Keira a

hard time.

“Mrs. Horton, Miss Madeleine’s mother is pleading with you, won’t you say even a word?”

“That’s a human life; how can you be so cold-hearted?”

“Do you and Mr. Horton really plan to leave Miss

Madeleine to die?”

“Since it was agreed that Miss Madeleine would be married to Mr. Horton, why did Mr. Horton have a change of heart? Was it because you intervened? Mrs.

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Horton, don’t you feel guilty? In the dead of night,

don’t you suddenly feel scared?”

The reporters’ questions were becoming more and more tricky.

Comments of abuse also swept across the live

broadcast chat.

“Dammit! A mistress is taking over?”

“I feel that since you made a promise, you should keep it. How can you abandon her when she is mentally unwell?”

“Isn’t this the very definition of biting the hand that feeds you?”

“If Miss Madeleine finds out when she grows up that the person she saved would treat her this way, I wonder if the younger her would still save him!”

“A real-life version of The Farmer and the Viper story!”

“That’s not even the most important thing! Isn’t the most important thing about Mrs. Horton? She doesn’t say a word. Is she planning to play dead?”

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The public’s accusations made Lewis press the accelerator furiously.

He knew these comments wouldn’t hurt Keira. Her mental resilience had always been strong, but even so, he didn’t want her to be hurt in the slightest.

He ran red lights and sped all the way.

wanted to tell the reporters it wasn’t like that at all.

help clear Keira’s name!

a corner, Keira’s distinct, cool voice emerged from

as a couple, then today

hearing this,

was always a woman of few words, not good at explaining. Was

was pondering, he heard her

you ever played house?”

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were slightly stunned, and

someone answered, “Yes.”

told a girl you would marry her when you grew

were instantly

it like that. We were just playing, but Mr. Horton and Miss Madeleine’s situation is clearly

didn’t she? So, is it because she saved Mr. Horton’s life that

reporter was

and continued. “Five years ago when Mr. Horton found her, Madeleine was being beaten by her mother and father, wanting to sell her to someone else as their daughter-in-law. Mrs. Davis, at that time, you certainly didn’t have the love for your daughter that you

modo Madeleine’s

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then she wailed. “I just wanted her to get married.

want her

you know how Madeleine’s

about?”

“You’re all only concerned about whether Mr. Horton abandoned

Lewis could have saved her, but he was merely her medicine!

reporters were stunned into silence

living her days in

without Mr. Horton!”

people

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broadcast fell silent.

Madeleine spent on treatments both at home and abroad is something an ordinary family

for her! During

can do that?

ill and attempted suicide, you blame Mr. Horton for the medicine not being administered in time.

this?!”

towards Madeleine’s mother. “You repeatedly claim it’s for

it’s because of Mr. Horton. You say I abused

here!”

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ask any elder, and we’ll find out, right?

mother was caught off guard once again.

call the police now and report

phone and dialed the police

quickly, filed a

Madeleine’s mother.

again as she angrily shouted, “Mrs. Horton, by doing this, are you and Mr. Horton plannin to wash your hands of my daughter completely? There’s a saying, ‘If you save someone, save them all the way.’ Don’t you understand? My daughter saved his life. How

turned their attention back

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sense, but the problem now is that the medicine can’t stop. What

at the reporter who

resolute.

bad feeling and quickly pulled the car over to the

halt, he heard the cool voice of a woman coming from

I’ll clarify right now. I’m not the mistress, Mr. Horton and I are in a relationship out of free will, and he never

just wanted to help her with her treatment. As for the

camera, her gaze resolute as she stared straight

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