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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.

to tell the reporters it wasn’t

help clear Keira’s

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

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

hearing this, Lewis

good at explaining.

he heard her

ever

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reporters were slightly stunned, and then

someone answered, “Yes.”

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

reporters were instantly at a loss.

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

his life, didn’t she? So, is

reporter was

being beaten by her mother and father, wanting to sell her to someone else as their daughter-in-law. Mrs. Davis, at

modo Madeleine’s

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wailed. “I just wanted her to get

her to

Madeleine’s mental

about?”

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

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

were stunned into silence once again.

married, what state would she be in now? Either living her days in a daze or she

without Mr. Horton!”

and people watching

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broadcast fell silent.

amount of money Madeleine spent on treatments both at home and abroad is something

to 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 call… I ask you all,

do that?

Horton for the medicine not being administered in time. Why don’t you ask the assailants why they

this?!”

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

daughter is about to die now, and it’s because of Mr. Horton. You say I abused my daughter, do you

here!”

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

was caught off

going to call the police now and report you for abusing Madeleine, resulting in her mental

said that, Keira took out her phone and

quickly, filed a

Madeleine’s mother.

“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

other reporters turned their attention back

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

at the reporter who had spoken, her

resolute.

a bad feeling and quickly

cool voice of a woman coming from

clarify right now. I’m not the mistress, Mr. Horton and I are in a relationship out of free will,

her treatment. As for the issue of the

the camera, her gaze resolute as she stared

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