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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

to help clear Keira’s

Keira’s distinct, cool voice

a couple, then today I’ll take the

this, Lewis

words, not good at

was pondering, he heard

you ever played

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slightly stunned, and then

someone answered, “Yes.”

her when you grew up, did you actually marry her when

reporters were instantly at a loss.

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

she? So, is it because

was

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

statement modo Madeleine’s mother choke

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she wailed. “I just wanted her to get

didn’t want her to die!”

Madeleine’s mental illness

about?”

“You’re all only concerned about whether Mr.

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

reporters were stunned into

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

without Mr. Horton!”

people watching the live

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broadcast fell silent.

treatments both at home and abroad is something an ordinary

return to her 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

can do

ill and attempted 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 own good,

now, and it’s because of

here!”

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and your husband abusing your child. Just ask any elder, and we’ll find out, right? Evidence is something

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

out her phone and dialed the police

a case,

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 all the way.’ Don’t you understand? My daughter saved his life.

their attention back

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you said just now made sense, but the problem now is that the medicine can’t stop. What are

looked at the reporter who had spoken,

resolute.

suddenly had a bad feeling and quickly pulled

cool voice of a woman coming from the

the mistress, Mr. Horton and I are in a relationship out of free will, and he never dated Madeleine

her with her treatment. As for the issue of the medicine that concerns everybody the most…’

looked toward the camera, her gaze resolute as she stared

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