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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.

it wasn’t

wanted to help clear

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

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

hearing this,

good at explaining. Was she overwhelmed

was pondering, he heard her voice

you ever played house?”

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slightly stunned,

someone answered, “Yes.”

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

were instantly

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

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

reporter was

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

statement modo Madeleine’s mother choke

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wailed. “I just

didn’t want her to die!”

how Madeleine’s

about?”

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

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

stunned into silence once

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 building, wouldn’t she? Instead of, as

without Mr. Horton!”

reporters and people watching

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broadcast fell silent.

the amount of money Madeleine spent on treatments both at home and abroad is something an ordinary family cannot

here for her! During these five years, whenever she called, Mr. Horton was there at her beck and

can do that?

administered in time. Why don’t

this?!”

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

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

here!”

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Just ask any elder, and we’ll find out, right?

caught off guard once

call the police now and report

phone and dialed

quickly, filed a case, and

Madeleine’s mother.

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 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 love with you, a

turned their

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made sense, but the problem now is that the medicine can’t stop.

the reporter who had spoken,

resolute.

feeling and quickly pulled the car over

to a halt, he heard the cool voice of a woman coming from the camera.

here, I’ll clarify right now. I’m not the mistress, Mr. Horton and I are in a relationship

just wanted to help her with her treatment. As for the issue of the medicine

toward the camera, her gaze resolute

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