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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.”

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

marriage

and headed out.

old lady,

had to trot to keep up

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

Keira, Poppy’s eyes lit up.

walked over, cautiously avoiding Lewis.

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Keira and said self-righteously, “You must

raised an

understand why the two were out

in the morning.

they leave

could speak, Poppy

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

to you. Not only did she let you go to school with her, but she also shared her clothes with

milk, so you only survived because you took the milk that

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

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because you

your sister were born the

your sister. You should repay her

those 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

of desertion!

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

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

could only get the last place

Her parents never prepared

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

taken off by

being

be weak after being starved for five days?

in Keira’s eyes grew

she immediately added, “Now that you’ve grown up, you finally have a chance to repay the Olsen family. Keira, old Mrs. Horton listens

and laughed.

face lit up, thinking she had convinced Keira, only to hear

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