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Vehicles bustled around them.”

When Keira turned her head to look over, Howard had already grabbed her arm, giving her a wary glance.

But Keira didn’t speak; instead, she calmly looked at

Tom.

Seeing her determined attitude, Howard tried to please Tom with a smile. “You must be Mr. Davis, right? Sorry, we came from Clance to pay our respects, and

the child wanted milk, but we had no hot water… The child’s mother here… she was looking to see if you had any water in the house…”

Keira didn’t offer any further explanation, just quietly watching Tom.

To her surprise, Tom glanced at her only briefly before immediately saying, “The Horton family has plenty of hot water. Shall I get someone to bring it over to you?”

Keira frowned slightly.

What did Tom mean by that?

He didn’t recognize her?

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Keira was full of confusion and was about to say something, but then she closed her mouth.

At this moment, countless doubts surged up in her heart, making her exceedingly cautious!

Upon further thought, the truth of her marriage had been suddenly revealed, and out of the blue, she had gained a twin sister.

And soon after Keera met her, they both faced a deadly

threat!

This indicated that the “they” Keera spoke of, who wanted to kill them, had been surveilling her all along.

Did Tom perceive something? Was that why he didn’t dare acknowledge her?

While she was lost in her thoughts, Howard, in fear, immediately gestured with his hands, his posture very humble. “Please don’t bother. I’ll just go with you to get

some!”

After saying that, he snatched the feeding bottle from Keira’s hand, about to have Keira wait in the car when a honking sound came from within the line of cars.

Howard turned around to see that the cars up front

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had moved, but theirs was still stationary.

And the cars they were blocking were all expensive luxury cars. How could Howard dare to delay?

Tom also frowned and asked. “Whose car is that?”

“Mine. It’s mine.

let your wife come with me to

hearing this, Howard glanced at Keira.

he said, “Why don’t I have my mother accompany her? She just got injured a couple of days ago…”

in a fawning manner, and then grabbed Keira’s

Tom +1

the two of them to the gatehouse.

had a water

while Howard’s mother wanted to ingratiate herself with Tom, his serious expression made her

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eak.

Keira sird suddenly proached Tom and asked quietly, “What’s tit’s the

euestion, she saw Tom frown in

puzzled look, “What?”

wasps perplexed.

id

else when Howard’s mother came overover ptly, seizedzed her arm, and said in a cautious tone,one, t are you

Keira’s hanand, she said to Tom, “Mr. Davis, we, we appreciate yourour help. We’ll head back to the car car

Tom but savsaw him merely nod at them.m. ize then turned blablank as he looked ahead, his tched with

the ity guard’s lounge by Howard’s mother, while still

utterly confused and dd didn’t understand

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you just doing? You were trying to cozy up to Mr. Davis, and not even looking at the time! Didn’t Howard tell you on the way here? I heard Mr. Davis and Mrs. Horton are very close, friends even. He’s in pain right now, so why are you shamelessly

Howard’s mother released her arm and scoffed. “Howard said you pretend to be aloof and dislike socializing, but it seems you’re not averse to mingling. You just haven’t seen a real affluent family before, have you? When you finally do, you still fawn over them.

now? You still have the

lip, Howard’s mother returned to the car with

Keira was slightly taken aback when she

“Wash my face?”

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her cell phone, using the black screen as a mirror to take a quick look, and then froze on

wonder Tom didn’t recognize her. Her face was

with a thick layer of gentian violet, making her face nearly

unrecognizable…

had struck her body, and there were some cuts on

Keira was dumbfounded.

pondering so much, only for it

standing there for? Get in the car!”

After ”

car, Howard’s mother

and when

mother tossed her a wet wipe,

of yours clean! Don’t embarrass yourself

didn’t refuse.

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the car, she

then using the phone, wiped the solution off her

applied by a nurse in the hospital two

it took her a long while to wipe off, leaving some traces, but she could at least make out

Howard had already driven into

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