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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 distinct, cool voice emerged from the

life as a couple, then today I’ll take

this,

woman of few words, not good at explaining. Was she overwhelmed by the

was pondering, he heard her voice again.

you ever played

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the reporters were slightly

someone answered, “Yes.”

when you grew up, did you

reporters were instantly at a

obviously someone arranged by the Horton family’s first branch. “You can’t say it like that. We were just playing, but Mr. Horton

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

was

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, at that time, you certainly didn’t have the love for your daughter that you do now.”

statement modo Madeleine’s mother choke

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just wanted her to get

want her to

know how Madeleine’s mental illness

about?”

all only concerned about whether Mr. Horton

in life! Lewis could have saved her, but he was merely her medicine! Since when did a person’s death cease to be

stunned into

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!”

and people watching

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broadcast fell silent.

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

for her! During these five years,

can do

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

this?!”

for Madeleine’s own good, but

it’s because of Mr. Horton. You say I abused my daughter, do you have evidence? Without evidence, don’t

here!”

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

caught off guard once

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

out her phone and dialed the police

filed a case, and arrested

Madeleine’s mother.

she angrily shouted, “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

reporters turned their

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made sense, but the problem now is that the medicine

the reporter who had

resolute.

a bad feeling and quickly

screeching to a halt, he heard the cool voice of a woman

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

up. He just wanted to help her with her treatment. As for the issue of the medicine that concerns everybody the

toward the camera, her gaze resolute as she stared straight

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