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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.”

confident in her acting that she wouldn’t give up

marriage certificate

certificate and headed out. “I’ll wait for you

at the old lady, then

she almost had to trot to keep up

arrived at the parking lot, they saw Poppy standing there with an ashen-faced Isla, who was shaking and

Keira, Poppy’s eyes lit up.

walked over, cautiously avoiding Lewis.

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and said self-righteously, “You must help your sister!”

an eyebrow.

understand why the two

in the morning.

leave last

she could speak, Poppy was already rambling.

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

only did she let you

so weak when you were born th you wouldn’t have survived. didn’t have any milk, so

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

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because you

born the same day…

You should repay her kindness all your life…”

heard those words in ten

like a horse for the Olsen

but parents having to raise a child was a legal obligation.

of desertion!

go 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 servant at school.

Keira’s fault for not

she could only get the last place in exams because she couldn’t outshine

clothes… Her parents

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

soon as she put it on, it was taken off by Poppy and given to Isla, stating that she wasn’t

being

baby wouldn’t be weak after being starved for five days?

in Keira’s eyes grew more

grown up, you finally have a chance to repay the Olsen family. Keira, old Mrs. Horton listens to you right? Ask her to

down and laughed. “You’re

up, thinking she had convinced Keira, only to hear the

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