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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.

reporters it wasn’t like that

wanted to help clear Keira’s

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

in our private life as a couple, then today

this,

woman of few words, not good

he was pondering, he heard her

you ever played house?”

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the reporters were slightly stunned,

someone answered, “Yes.”

told a girl you would marry her when you grew up, did you actually

instantly at a

were just playing, but Mr. Horton and Miss Madeleine’s situation is

and smiled. “Yes, she saved his life, didn’t she? So, is it because she saved Mr. Horton’s life

reporter was

eyes 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,

modo Madeleine’s mother choke un

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just wanted her

didn’t want her

how Madeleine’s

about?”

looked at everyone around her. “You’re all only concerned about

in life! Lewis could have saved her, but he was merely her medicine! Since when did

into silence

severe depression and autism for five years. If she had gotten married, what state would she be in now? Either living her days in a daze or she would have already jumped off a building, wouldn’t she? Instead of, as of now, rationally telling everyone that she will

without Mr. Horton!”

the reporters and people watching the

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broadcast fell silent.

spent on treatments both at home and abroad is

her country, Mr. Horton established a mental hospital here for her! During these five years, whenever she called, Mr. Horton was there at her

do

suicide, you blame Mr. Horton for the medicine not being administered

this?!”

suddenly turned her head towards Madeleine’s mother. “You repeatedly claim it’s for Madeleine’s

to die now, and it’s because of Mr.

here!”

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knows about you and your husband abusing your child. Just ask any elder, and we’ll find out, right? Evidence is something the police will

was caught off guard

police now and report you for abusing Madeleine, resulting in

out her phone and dialed the police in front of

arrived quickly, filed a case, and arrested

Madeleine’s mother.

the money promised by the Horton family’s first branch, her eyes lit up again as she angrily shouted, “Mrs. Horton, by doing this, are you and Mr. Horton plannin to wash your hands of

turned their attention back to

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also asking, “Mrs. Horton, what you said just now made sense, but the problem now is that the

at the reporter who had spoken, her

resolute.

bad feeling and quickly pulled the car

a halt, he heard the cool voice

Horton and I are in

her with her treatment. As for the issue of the

the camera, her gaze resolute as

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