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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.”

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

was this marriage

marriage certificate and

the old lady, then followed

and she almost had to trot to keep up with him.

they saw Poppy standing there with an ashen-faced Isla,

eyes lit

walked over, cautiously avoiding Lewis.

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Keira and said self-righteously, “You must

raised an

two were out

in the morning.

they leave

Poppy was already rambling.

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

has been even better to you. Not only did she let you go to school with her, but she also

you were born th you wouldn’t have survived. didn’t have any milk, so you only survived because you took the milk that was supposed to be for your sister.

to take us in.

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because you

your sister were born

you owe your sister. You should repay her kindness all your life…”

those words in ten years.

was little, she believed these lies and worked like a horse for

child was a legal obligation. If they hadn’t taken care

of desertion!

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

it was Keira’s fault for not taking good care of her, and she would get beaten

she could only get the last place in exams because

Her parents

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wear Isla’s hand-me-downs; hence, her clothes

a new dress once, but as soon as she put it on, it was taken off by Poppy and given to Isla, stating that she wasn’t good enough! She couldn’t be prettier than

being

weak after being

mockery in Keira’s eyes grew more

a chance to repay the Olsen family. Keira, old Mrs. Horton listens to you

and laughed.

had convinced Keira, only to hear the girl’s indifferent voice a moment

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