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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 wasn’t like that

to help

corner, Keira’s distinct, cool voice emerged from the

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

hearing this,

not good at explaining. Was she overwhelmed by the pressure today?

he was pondering, he heard her voice again.

ever played house?”

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slightly

someone answered, “Yes.”

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

were instantly at a loss.

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 saved

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

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 do now.”

Madeleine’s mother

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just wanted her

want her

how Madeleine’s

about?”

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

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

reporters were stunned into silence

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,

without Mr. Horton!”

reporters and people watching the

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broadcast fell silent.

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

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

do

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

this?!”

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

it’s because of Mr. Horton. You say I abused my daughter, do you have evidence? Without evidence,

here!”

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child. Just ask any elder, and we’ll

was caught off

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

said that, Keira took out her phone and dialed the police in front of

quickly, filed a case, and arrested

Madeleine’s mother.

mother was terrified, but thinking of the 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

other reporters turned their

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

looked at the reporter who

resolute.

had a bad feeling and quickly pulled

the cool voice of a woman coming from the camera.

I are in a relationship out

treatment. As for the issue of

her gaze resolute as she stared straight ahead.

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