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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

to help

as he was turning a corner, Keira’s distinct, cool voice

private life as a couple, then today I’ll take

hearing this,

few words, not good at explaining. Was she overwhelmed by the

pondering, he heard her

ever played house?”

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the reporters were slightly stunned, and then

someone answered, “Yes.”

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

instantly at

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 Madeleine

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

was

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

statement modo Madeleine’s mother

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wailed. “I just wanted her

didn’t want her to die!”

know how Madeleine’s mental illness

about?”

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

illness? It’s because of the abuse she suffered from her parents that she lost all hope in life! Lewis could have saved her, but he was merely her medicine! Since when did a person’s death cease to be about holding the executioner accountable and instead become about

stunned into silence once again.

“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 daze or she would have already jumped off a building, wouldn’t she? Instead of, as of now, rationally

without Mr. Horton!”

people watching

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broadcast fell silent.

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

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

do

you blame Mr. Horton for the medicine not being administered in time. Why

this?!”

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

don’t care, my daughter is about to die now, and it’s because of Mr. Horton.

here!”

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street knows about you and your husband abusing your child. Just ask any elder, and

mother was caught off guard once again.

you’ve reminded me, I’m going to call the police now and report you for abusing Madeleine, resulting in her

her phone and

a

Madeleine’s mother.

Mr. Horton plannin to wash your hands of my daughter completely? There’s a saying, ‘If you save someone, save them all the

their attention

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

looked at the reporter who

resolute.

suddenly had a bad feeling and quickly

he heard the cool voice of

the mistress, Mr. Horton and I are in a relationship out of free will,

help her with her treatment. As for the issue of

camera, her gaze

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