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Keira stared dumbfounded at the marriage certificate

in her hand.

She suddenly realized, that the first time old Mrs. Horton saw her, she called her “granddaughter-in-law”. The old lady had known all along that Keira and Lewis were married!

Keira felt that she had found a clue.

She immediately asked, “Grandma, how did you come by this marriage certificate?”

Old Mrs. Horton was taken aback, her eyes growing a touch bewildered. “I… I can’t really remember.”

Keira continued. “How did Mr. Horton and I come to

be married?”

Old Mrs. Horton just shook her head. “I don’t recall:

Keira grew somewhat anxious. “Grandma, please try to

think back…”

“Enough!”

Lewis said unhappily, his towering figure standing

between the two women. His eyes were cold when he asked, “Miss Olsen, is this certificate real?”

“Of course.”

Lewis’s face darkened. “Are you going to say we don’t need to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau now?”

So that was her aim!

She used a legitimate excuse like going to the Civil Affairs Bureau as a setup, then lured his grandma into taking out this fake certificate and tricking him into believing it was true.

If he hadn’t seen how his grandma just did as she was told, he might have believed Keira!

Keira sensed the hostility in the man’s tone and found it baffling. “We don’t have to go today.”

Divorce isn’t something that could be resolved by just stopping by the Civil Affairs Bureau.

For two years, they were legally husband and wife, so there were a lot of property distribution issues to deal with They needed to sign a divorce agreement first

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“No.”

After Lewis spoke, he carefully observed Keira.

She was slightly taken aback, then she said nonchalantly, “Whatever you say.”

in her acting that she wouldn’t give

was this marriage certificate

marriage certificate and headed out. “I’ll wait

the old lady,

almost had to trot to keep up

lot, they saw Poppy standing there with an ashen-faced Isla, who was shaking and sneezing. Poppy

Poppy’s eyes lit

over,

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said self-righteously, “You must help your sister!”

an eyebrow.

why the two were out so early

in the morning.

leave last

speak, Poppy was

child, but the Olsen family didn’t mind your background and raised you. For all the hardship they went through, you should reciprocate for the Olsen family…

Not only did she let you go to

didn’t have any milk, so you only survived

Olsen family hadn’t intended to take us in. Mrs. Olsen

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because you

your sister were born the same day…

You should repay her

heard those words in ten years.

these lies and worked like a horse for

child was a legal obligation. If they hadn’t taken care of her, they would have

of desertion!

did go to school with Isla Olsen, but she had to carry Isla’s school on their way to school and back home. She

Isla happened to cough one day, it was Keira’s fault for not taking good care of her, and she would get beaten by

place in

Her parents never

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hand-me-downs; hence, her clothes were always a bit

as she put it on, it was taken off by Poppy and given to Isla, stating that she

being weak…

wouldn’t be weak after being starved for

mockery in Keira’s eyes grew more

chance to repay the Olsen family. Keira, old Mrs. Horton listens to you right? Ask her to return the

looked down and laughed.

Keira, only to hear the girl’s indifferent voice

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