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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 at all.

to help clear

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

all so interested in our private life as a couple, then today I’ll take the

this,

was always a woman of few words, not good at explaining. Was

pondering, he heard

ever

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slightly

someone answered, “Yes.”

girl you would 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.

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

reporter was

and father, wanting to sell her to someone else as their daughter-in-law. Mrs. Davis, at that time, you certainly

Madeleine’s

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wailed. “I just wanted her to get married.

her to

Madeleine’s

about?”

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

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 questioning

stunned into silence

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

without Mr. Horton!”

the reporters and people

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broadcast fell silent.

continued. “Over these years, the amount of money Madeleine spent on treatments both at home and abroad

for her! During these five years, whenever she called, Mr. Horton was there at her

do

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

this?!”

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

die now, and it’s because of Mr.

here!”

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your street knows about you and your husband abusing your child. Just ask any elder, and we’ll find out, right? Evidence is something the police will

off

now and report you

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

a case, and

Madeleine’s mother.

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?

their attention back

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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

at the reporter who had spoken, her gaze

resolute.

Lewis suddenly had a bad feeling and quickly pulled the

halt, he heard the cool voice of a woman

I’ll clarify right now. I’m not the mistress, Mr. Horton and I are in a relationship out of free will, and he never

As for the issue of the medicine that concerns

her gaze resolute as she stared straight

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