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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.

it wasn’t like that at all.

help

just as he was turning a corner, Keira’s distinct, cool voice emerged from the live broadcast.

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

this, Lewis

always a woman of few words, not good at explaining. Was she overwhelmed by the pressure

he was pondering, he heard her voice again.

you ever played house?”

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slightly

someone answered, “Yes.”

and told a girl you would marry her when you

instantly

obviously someone arranged by the Horton family’s first branch. “You can’t say it like that. We were just playing, but Mr. Horton and Miss Madeleine’s situation is clearly different. Miss

didn’t she? So, is it because

was

Madeleine was being beaten by her mother and father, wanting to sell her to someone else as

modo Madeleine’s mother

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“I just

her to

know how Madeleine’s

about?”

all only concerned about whether

she lost all hope in life! Lewis could have saved her, but he was merely her medicine! Since when did a person’s

into silence once

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 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

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broadcast fell silent.

these years, the amount of money Madeleine spent on treatments both at home and abroad is something an ordinary

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

can do that?

being administered in time. Why don’t you ask the

this?!”

it’s for Madeleine’s own good, but are you even fit to be a

of Mr. Horton. You say I abused my daughter, do you have

here!”

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child. Just ask any

was caught off guard once

you’ve reminded me, I’m going to call the police now and

and dialed the police

a case, and

Madeleine’s mother.

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 all the way.’ Don’t you understand? My daughter saved his life. How can he fall in love with you, a mistress!”

their attention

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made sense, but the problem now is that the medicine can’t stop. What are you and Mr. Horton planning to do?”

the reporter who

resolute.

Lewis suddenly had a bad feeling and quickly pulled the car over to

a halt, he heard the cool voice of a woman

clarify right now. I’m not the mistress, Mr. Horton and I are

her with her treatment. As

looked toward the camera, her gaze

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