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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.

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

to help

Keira’s distinct,

you’re all so interested in our private life as a couple, then

this,

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

he was pondering, he

ever played

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were slightly stunned,

someone answered, “Yes.”

played house and told a girl you would marry her when you grew up, did

were instantly at

“You can’t say it like that. We were just playing, but Mr. Horton and Miss Madeleine’s situation is

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

reporter was

continued. “Five years ago when Mr. Horton found her, Madeleine was being beaten by her mother and father, wanting to sell her to

Madeleine’s mother choke

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she wailed. “I just wanted her

want her to die!”

know how Madeleine’s mental illness came

about?”

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

she suffered from her parents that she lost all hope in life! Lewis could have saved her,

stunned into

stepped forward. “Madeleine has been suffering from 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

without Mr. Horton!”

reporters and people watching the

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broadcast fell silent.

amount of money Madeleine spent on treatments both at home and abroad is something an

chose to return to her country, Mr. Horton established a mental hospital here for her! During these five years, whenever she called, Mr. Horton

can do that?

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

this?!”

repeatedly claim it’s for Madeleine’s

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

here!”

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street knows about you and your husband abusing your child. Just ask any elder, and we’ll find out, right? Evidence

mother was caught off guard

and report you for abusing Madeleine, resulting in her mental

and dialed the police in

arrived quickly, filed a case, and arrested

Madeleine’s mother.

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 my daughter completely? There’s a saying, ‘If you save someone, save them

reporters turned their

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the problem now

reporter who had spoken, her

resolute.

quickly pulled the car over

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

here, 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

treatment. As for

her gaze resolute

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