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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 at all.

to help clear Keira’s

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

so interested in our private life as a couple, then today I’ll take the time to explain it thoroughly here.”

this, Lewis

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

pondering, he heard her voice

ever played

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slightly

someone answered, “Yes.”

marry her when you grew up, did

instantly at

arranged 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

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

reporter was speechless.

to sell her to someone else as their daughter-in-law. Mrs. Davis, at that time,

modo Madeleine’s mother choke un

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just wanted

want her

you know how Madeleine’s mental

about?”

only concerned about whether Mr.

ever thought about the cause of 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

stunned into silence

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, rationally telling everyone that she will

without Mr. Horton!”

and people watching the

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broadcast fell silent.

on treatments

mental hospital here for her! During these five years,

can do

is 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

this?!”

“You repeatedly claim it’s for Madeleine’s

it’s because of Mr. Horton. You say I abused my daughter, do

here!”

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ask any elder, and we’ll find out,

caught off guard once

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

out her phone and dialed the

quickly, filed a case,

Madeleine’s mother.

shouted, “Mrs. Horton, by doing this, are you and Mr. Horton plannin to wash your hands

other reporters turned their attention

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now is that

looked at the reporter who

resolute.

a bad feeling and quickly pulled the car over to the

screeching to a halt, he heard the cool voice of

I are in a relationship out of free will, and he

treatment. As for

the camera, her gaze

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