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Victoria immediately moved toward that car.

She caught a glimpse of someone opening the door, and the first thing to come out was a pair of leather

shoes.

Next came black trousers, straight legs, and then…

Victoria deliberately walked unsteadily, pretending to be drunk, and when the person finally got out of the car, she threw herself at him.

“Ouch…”

Victoria let out a soft cry, then collapsed onto the man and rubbed herself against him. “Mr. Horton, I’m sorry, I just sprained my ankle.”

After saying this, she lowered her head, feigning shyness.

She had expected that the person would be a refined and gentle man, but instead, she heard an elderly voice saying, “Young lady, are you alright?”

Victoria stiffened and turned around abruptly to see an old man holding her: she straightened up

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immediately in fright. “Who are you?!”

The driver also got out of the car, and upon hearing this, he immediately scolded. “This is Mr. Horton. Behave yourself!”

Mr. Horton…

He looked to be in his sixties, so could he be Lewis

Horton’s father, Nathan Horton?

Victoria’s complexion turned pale instantly, and she immediately stood up straight. “Mr. Horton, I’m sorry. I was just…”

She glanced at the ground, pointing to the pebbles beneath her feet. “It was an accident.”

Nathan coughed and looked down at his hand.

The woman who had just fallen into his arms had also rubbed against him, letting him grasp the smooth sensation he had longed for, and in that moment, he felt as though he had grown younger!

He looked at the young woman with a smile. “Which family are you from?”

Victoria laughed with her head down. “I’m a foster daughter of the Olsen family.”

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heaved a sigh. “Now

own.”

do you live

biological daughter, and I just didn’t fit in

to cry? Is it because the

overbearing, not allowing you to stay

It’s not

Nathan was already dissatisfied with

Lewis spent all his time away from home, reportedly chasing after his fiancée.

the passing of his

felt a bit happy, thinking that if Lewis fell

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might revert to the control of

branch!

to his surprise, upon arriving in Clance, the young man actually learned to curry favor with those in

power!

as the head of the Horton family,

arranged marriages.

Nathan’s knowledge, an engagement was set up with the Olsen family, solidifying Lewis’s position in both the Horton family and in Clance!

for this marriage, Lewis would lower himself to stay by

that previous aloofness was

felt that in the end, Lewis was just like him, a man who would give up a woman for the sake of family business! He thought, “Let’s see what right he has to laugh at

no good feelings for Lewis’s fiancée, whom he had not yet met. He said bluntly, “Such

I had known

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and that Lewis was going to get engaged to that woman, I

to

her head. “I used to fancy Mr. Horton too… My brother had planned to engage him with me, but unfortunately, someone beat us to it… After my sister came home, she must have heard

more she spoke, the

SO

to him, asking, “Have the Olsens arrived yet? I want to see Uncle Olsen and ask him how he raised such a

old gentleman and entered the living room through a side door. “I’ll go check. They should be here soon. The banquet is about to start,

Nathan’s other arm. “Sir, let me walk with

a

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room, they saw that

Mrs. Horton rested

asking, “Where are the Olsens? Haven’t

with Oliver. Upon hearing this, Oliver looked toward the

said, “They should be here, probably at the entrance. Let’s have the butler welcome them.”

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