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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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a sigh. “Now I

own.”

“Why do you live on your own?”

daughter, and I just didn’t fit in anymore, so I moved out… But it’s okay.

you’re about to cry? Is it because the Olsen

overbearing, not allowing you to

no. It’s not like that. She’s quite good

already dissatisfied with

his time away from home,

as if he was dying over the passing of his late wife, and

that time, Nathan felt a bit happy, thinking that if Lewis fell apart

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the control of the first

branch!

young man actually

power!

the Horton family, Lewis even

arranged marriages.

an engagement was set up with the Olsen family,

marriage, Lewis would lower himself to

as if all that previous aloofness

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 me in the future!”

whom he had not yet met. He said bluntly,

family. If I had known earlier that

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Lewis was going to get engaged to that woman, I would have

agreed to

to engage him with me, but unfortunately, someone beat us to it… After my sister came home, she must have heard the news, that’s probably why she can’t

spoke, the angrier Nathan became!

SO

looked at the driver next to him, asking, “Have the Olsens arrived yet? I want to see Uncle Olsen and ask him how he raised such a good daughter who has the gall to keep a

“I’ll go check. They should be here soon. The banquet is about to start, and the Olsen family is one of the most important

Nathan’s other arm.

nodded with a

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saw that the hall was already bustling with people.

Old Mrs. Horton rested upstairs and wasn’t meeting guests in

are the Olsens? Haven’t they arrived

this, Oliver looked toward the door, “Not yet? Jake, go check if they have arrived!”

here, probably at the entrance. Let’s have the butler

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