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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.”

her acting that she

marriage

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

old lady, then followed Lewis out.

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

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

eyes lit up.

walked over, cautiously

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and said self-righteously, “You must help

raised an eyebrow.

the two

in the morning.

leave last night?

speak, Poppy was

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

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

didn’t have any milk, so you only

family hadn’t intended to take us in.

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because you

were born the

your sister. You should repay her kindness

those words in ten years.

worked like a horse for the Olsen family. She let Isla

family had raised her, but parents having to raise a child was a legal obligation.

of desertion!

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

Keira’s fault for not taking good

could only get the last place in exams because she

Her parents never prepared

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wear Isla’s hand-me-downs; hence, her

did buy her a new dress once, but as soon as she put it on, it was taken off by Poppy and given to Isla, stating

for being weak…

be weak after being starved for five days?

eyes grew

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

and laughed. “You’re

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

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