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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 wouldn’t give up until the last moment.

marriage certificate

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

reassuringly at the old

almost had to trot to keep up

with

seeing Keira, Poppy’s eyes lit

quickly walked over, cautiously avoiding

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

raised an

the two were out so

in the morning.

leave

could speak, Poppy was

and raised you. For all the hardship they went through, you should reciprocate for

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

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

were born the same

you owe your sister. You should

words in

believed these lies and worked like a horse for the Olsen family. She

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

of desertion!

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

to cough one day, it was Keira’s fault for not taking

only get the last place in exams

the clothes… Her parents never prepared any

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hence, her clothes were always a

as soon as she put it on, it was taken off by Poppy and given

for being

weak after being

Keira’s eyes

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

and laughed.

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

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