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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 up until

was this marriage

simply picked up the marriage certificate and

the old lady,

had to trot to

at the parking lot, they saw Poppy standing there with an ashen-faced Isla,

Poppy’s eyes lit up. “Keira!”

over,

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stood before Keira and said self-righteously, “You must help your

raised an

didn’t understand why the two were

in the morning.

leave last night?

Poppy

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

let you go to school with her,

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

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

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because you

sister were born the same

should repay her

words in ten years.

worked like a horse for the Olsen family. She let Isla bully her. How ridiculous!

parents having to raise a child was a legal obligation. If they hadn’t taken care of her, they would

of desertion!

their

fault for not taking good care of her, and she would get beaten

place

parents never prepared any

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

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

being weak…

weak after being starved for five

in Keira’s eyes grew more intense.

that you’ve grown up, you finally have a chance to repay

and laughed.

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

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