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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.”

she was too confident in her acting that she wouldn’t give up until the

marriage

simply picked up the marriage certificate and headed out. “I’ll wait for you in the parking

smiled reassuringly at the old lady, then

quickly, and she almost had to trot to keep up with

with an ashen-faced Isla, who was shaking and sneezing. Poppy seemed

Keira, Poppy’s eyes lit up. “Keira!”

quickly walked over, cautiously avoiding Lewis.

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stood before Keira and said self-righteously, “You

an eyebrow.

two were out so early

in the morning.

they leave

Poppy was already

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…

you go to school with her, but she also shared her clothes with

survived. didn’t have any milk, so you only survived because you took the

take us in. Mrs. Olsen

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because you

were born

should repay her kindness all your

words in ten years.

like a horse for

a legal obligation. If they hadn’t taken

of desertion!

but she had to carry Isla’s school on their way to school and back home. She

to cough one day, it was Keira’s fault for not taking

only get the last place in exams

Her parents

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She could only wear Isla’s hand-me-downs; hence, her clothes were always a bit too

as she put it on, it was taken off by Poppy and given

being weak…

wouldn’t be weak after being starved

in Keira’s eyes

added, “Now that you’ve grown up, you finally have a chance to repay the Olsen

and

up, thinking she had convinced Keira, only to hear the girl’s indifferent

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