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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.

wanted to tell the reporters it wasn’t like

wanted to help clear Keira’s

a corner, Keira’s distinct, cool voice

a couple, then today I’ll take the

this,

good at explaining.

pondering, he heard her

ever played house?”

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were slightly stunned,

someone answered, “Yes.”

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

were instantly at a

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 situation is clearly different. Miss Madeleine saved Mr.

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

reporter was

to sell her to someone else as their

modo Madeleine’s mother choke un

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“I just wanted her to get

her to

you know how Madeleine’s mental illness came

about?”

her. “You’re all only concerned about whether

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 person’s death cease to be about holding

stunned into silence once

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

without Mr. Horton!”

and people watching the live

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broadcast fell silent.

spent on treatments both at home and abroad is something an ordinary

Horton established a mental hospital here for her! During these

do that?

being administered in time. Why don’t you ask the assailants why they hurt her, making her end

this?!”

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

is about to die now, and it’s because of Mr. Horton. You say I abused my daughter, do you have evidence? Without evidence, don’t talk nonsense

here!”

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ask any elder, and

caught off guard once

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

out her phone and dialed the

a case, and

Madeleine’s mother.

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 life. How can he fall in

turned their attention back to

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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.

bad feeling and quickly pulled the car

to a halt, he heard the cool voice of a

Horton and I are in a relationship out of free will, and he never

her treatment. As for the

looked toward the camera, her gaze resolute as she stared straight ahead.

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