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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

help clear Keira’s name!

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

as a couple, then today I’ll take the time to

this, Lewis

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

was pondering, he heard

ever

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slightly stunned,

someone answered, “Yes.”

when you grew up, did

reporters were instantly at a

can’t say it like that. We were just playing, but Mr. Horton and Miss Madeleine’s situation is

smiled. “Yes, she saved his life, didn’t she? So, is

was speechless.

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

modo Madeleine’s mother choke un

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she wailed. “I just wanted her

didn’t want her to

how Madeleine’s mental

about?”

her. “You’re all only

hope in life! Lewis could have saved her, but he was merely her medicine! Since

were stunned into silence once again.

state would she be in now? Either living her days in a daze

without Mr. Horton!”

the reporters and people watching the live

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broadcast fell silent.

money Madeleine spent on treatments both at home and abroad is

During these five years, whenever she called, Mr. Horton was there at her beck and call… I ask you all,

do

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

this?!”

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

don’t care, my daughter is about to die now, and it’s because of Mr.

here!”

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scoffed. “Everyone on your street knows about you and your husband abusing your child. Just ask

mother was caught off guard once again.

call the police now and report you for abusing Madeleine, resulting

took out her phone and dialed the police in front of the reporters.

arrived quickly, filed a case, and

Madeleine’s mother.

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.

other reporters turned their

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

the reporter who had spoken,

resolute.

bad feeling and quickly pulled the

to a halt, he heard the cool voice of

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

treatment. As for the issue of the medicine that concerns everybody the

toward the camera, her gaze resolute as she stared

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