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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.

tell the reporters it wasn’t like that

to help clear Keira’s name!

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

as a couple, then

this,

woman of few words, not good at explaining.

was pondering, he

ever played

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were slightly stunned, and

someone answered, “Yes.”

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

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. Horton’s

life, didn’t she? So, is it

reporter 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 love for your daughter that you

modo Madeleine’s

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“I just wanted her to get

want her to

Madeleine’s mental illness came

about?”

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

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

reporters were stunned into silence once

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

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broadcast fell silent.

amount of money Madeleine spent on treatments both at home and

During these five years, whenever she called, Mr. Horton

do

because Madeleine is gravely ill and attempted suicide, you blame Mr. Horton for the medicine not being administered in time. Why don’t you ask the assailants why they hurt her, making her

this?!”

claim it’s for Madeleine’s

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

here!”

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scoffed. “Everyone on your street knows about you and your husband abusing your child. Just ask

off guard

and report you for abusing Madeleine, resulting

her phone and dialed the

quickly, filed a

Madeleine’s mother.

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

other reporters turned their attention back

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

the reporter who

resolute.

feeling and quickly pulled the car over

to a halt, he heard the cool voice

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

with her treatment. As

the camera, her gaze resolute as she

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