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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.

the reporters it wasn’t like that

wanted to help

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

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

this,

woman of few words, not good at explaining.

he heard her

ever played house?”

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the reporters were slightly stunned,

someone answered, “Yes.”

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

reporters were instantly at a loss.

the Horton family’s first branch. “You can’t say it like that. We were just playing,

that reporter and smiled. “Yes, she saved his life, didn’t she? So, is it because she saved Mr. Horton’s life that she developed depression?”

reporter was

lowered her eyes and continued. “Five years ago 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,

modo Madeleine’s mother choke

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she wailed. “I just wanted her to get

her

how Madeleine’s

about?”

looked at everyone around her. “You’re all only concerned

she suffered from her parents that she lost all hope in life! Lewis could have saved her, but he was merely her medicine!

into

been suffering from severe 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

without Mr. Horton!”

and people watching

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broadcast fell silent.

on treatments both at home and abroad is something an ordinary family cannot

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

do that?

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 end up

this?!”

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

daughter is about to die now, and it’s because of Mr. Horton. You

here!”

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“Everyone on your street knows about you and your husband abusing your child. Just ask any elder, and we’ll find out, right? Evidence is

caught off

the police now and report you for abusing Madeleine, resulting

phone and dialed the police

filed a case,

Madeleine’s mother.

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

turned their attention back to

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the problem now is that the medicine can’t stop. What are you and Mr. Horton

looked at the reporter who had

resolute.

and quickly pulled the car over to the roadside.

a halt, he heard the cool

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

help her with her treatment. As for the issue of the medicine that concerns everybody

the camera, her gaze resolute as

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