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Keira hurriedly said, “I…”

Before she could finish speaking, Holly had already turned around and left.

Keira could only hear her speaking to Captain Lincoln outside the door. “Her condition isn’t very good. Even if we must interrogate her throughout the night, can we do it without using the light?”

“Alright, out of respect for Dr. Sims.”

Keira sighed quietly.

Holly had vouched for her, saying that she wouldn’t released on bail. Samuel immediately rebutted Holly was no wonder she was so angry.

Never mind.

She should be able to keep up with the demands that her condition put on her body for another two days. If Holly could find evidence to prove her innocence within those two days, perhaps she shouldn’t apply for bail after all.

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Upstairs.

Holly entered the equipment room and placed the blood sample she had drawn from Keira’s finger into the machine.

Now all she could do was wait for the machine to analyze the various elements in the blood. This would take twenty minutes.

At this moment, her cell phone suddenly rang.

The call was from a detention center. She picked up and heard a voice from the other side. “Dr. Sims, we heard you’re at the station and decided to give you a call. We have a patient here who isn’t feeling well. Could you come and take a look?”

Holly immediately stood up. “I’ll be right there.”

Even though a forensic doctor and a medical doctor weren’t the same, she could still diagnose minor

illnesses.

She put on her coat and left.

She soon arrived at the detention center.

This place held suspects who hadn’t been tried by the court and some prisoners with sentences of less than

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three months.

Keira had just been placed in a solitary cell here.

Holly took a few steps forward and arrived at the cell door indicated by the guard who had called. She then put on a mask and gloves, stepped inside the cell, and coldly asked, “Who’s not feeling well?”

“It’s me…”

An unfamiliar yet familiar voice made Holly slightly frown. She turned her head and saw a middle-aged woman in a prison uniform, sitting there with her hands on her belly and an expression of pain on her face. “Doctor, my belly hurts so bad. Can you help

me…”

Holly was taken aback.

Wasn’t this woman Poppy Hill, Keira’s mother?

She had once attended a parents’ meeting for Keira in middle school!

Holly immediately walked over and asked with concern, “Auntie, what’s the matter?”

Poppy was suspected of perjury, but as the case wasn’t severe, she had been sentenced to fifteen days in

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detention.

She grabbed Holly’s hand and said, “My belly hurts so badly…”

Holly immediately reached out to touch her belly, not daring to underestimate the situation. “Is it here? I’ll take you to the hospital!”

“Oh, don’t touch me! It hurts so much…” But Poppy looked around with a pained expression and said, “There’s no need to go to the hospital. I just have a cold. Officer, can you take me to a solitary cell? My moaning and groaning here is disturbing everyone’s

rest…”

Holly immediately nodded, “Okay.”

Just as she was about to help Poppy out, someone el in the room suddenly yelled out, “Oh, my belly also hurts so bad. Officer, could you also take me to the solitary cell?”

The rest of the inmates immediately laughed.

“My belly hurts as well…”

“Hey, but I’m different. I have a headache. Can I go to the single ward, too?”

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Holly was speechless.

She frowned, about to say something, when someone looked over at Poppy and said, “We all eat the same food, but how come you’re the only one who got sick? It’s been five days inside, but you’ve been sick for four of them. Are you more delicate than the rest of us?”

“How come in our ward, you’re in such pain, but the moment you get to a single cell, you’re fine and snoring away?”

Holly frowned, realizing what was going on. Instantly, she looked at Poppy.

Poppy’s face instantly turned stiff, and then she wailed in despair, “I really don’t feel well!”

Holly clenched her jaw. “I’ll take you to the hospital then. If the tests show that you’re okay and it’s all an act, I’m afraid you’ll have to stay here a few more days

At these words, Poppy suddenly became nervous.

She didn’t want to be locked up here at all.

In here, the cellmates either farted or picked their feet every night. They also slept in all kinds of crazy

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positions. On her first night, she couldn’t sleep at all

due to the noise.

So she thought of a solution.

But wouldn’t it expose her if she went to the hospital?

Poppy gave Holly a pleading smile. “I don’t need to go to the hospital. It’s just a minor illness. I can take it. I’ll

live…”

Holly knew it. “Aunt, are you faking it?”

Poppy ran to her bed, lifted the blanket, and crawled in. “Hey, what kind of language is that for a little cop? How was I pretending? I just had a stomach ache, and now I’m better. What’s wrong with that? You won’t let me recover from an illness?”

Holly was frustrated!

The female prisoner next to her cursed, “You really have thick skin, you old rogue. You’re tricking people!”

However, Poppy retorted, “What was that compared to my daughter? I’m nothing compared to her! That little slut cheated me so badly! She’ll die in misery!”

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Just thinking of Keira made Poppy grind her teeth in hatred.

Who would have thought that the girl she tried to turn

into a good-for-nothing was Dr. South?!

Holly only found these words irritating.

With her jaw set, she closed the jail door and quickly went upstairs.

Soon, she had in her hands the latest blood test report. Upon seeing the data on it, her face darkened!

The iron content was normal!

Keira wasn’t anemic at all!

Liar!

In that instant, Holly trembled in anger. She wen straight to the interrogation room downstairs and threw the blood report at Keira. “Keira, do you enj tricking me time and time again?!”

Keira didn’t look at the test results. Instead, she sighed. “I’m not anemic now, but give it a few days.”

She had wanted to say that earlier, but Holly left without even hearing her out.

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The anemia Keira experienced was strange.

Each time her period came, a large amount of iron was lost, so iron supplements needed to be taken every month in advance.

As long as she didn’t bleed on a regular day, her iron content was normal.

After visiting many hospitals, she was finally diagnosed with a rare genetic disease.

Holly clearly hadn’t heard of such a thing and found it laughable. “Do you think I’ll believe the crap you’re saying? Keira, can’t you at least come up with a better excuse when lying to me?!”

Keira tried to explain weakly. “…I didn’t lie to you.”

“You didn’t lie to me? I’ve studied medicine for year and never came across a case like yours!”

Keira clenched her jaw and fell silent.

Her disease situation was indeed odd, and it was

normal for Holly to be skeptical.

Any further explanation would be pointless.

Seeing that Keira had fallen silent, anger surged within

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Holly.

Captain Lincoln by her side sighed. “Dr. Sims, she’s been like this all night, not saying a word. Let it go. I’ll have someone take her back to jail. Otherwise, our people will have to stay overnight, and we won’t get anything out of her anyway…”

Before he’d even finished speaking, Holly yelled angrily, “You guys go! I’ll stay up with her! I want to see how many more preposterous lies she will tell!!”

Captain Lincoln fell silent.

He cleared his throat. “Alright, we’ll go get some sleep. If she confesses to anything, call us immediately.”

After the group left, only Keira and Holly were l the interrogation room.

Holly sat across from her, staring at her. “Why did lie? Why did you apply for bail? Is it because all tho doubts you mentioned don’t exist at all? You’re just using me, hoping I’d testify that you’re not the murderer!”

Keira said, “Don’t worry. I won’t agree to bail within the next two days.”

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After that, she would need treatment.

Holly was taken aback, her eyes brimmed with tears. “Do you think saying that will make me forgive you?!”

She turned away, wiping the corner of her eye.

Keira didn’t speak anymore.

The night had deepened. Whether it was the impending menstrual period or the lack of rest late at night, Keira felt a dull ache in her head and a mild pain in her lower abdomen.

She stayed up all night like this.

By the next morning, Keira began to feel increasingly dizzy…

Damn it.

Lack of rest accelerated her period, and she started

become anemic!

Holly hadn’t slept all night, and her mind was in chaos

As dawn broke, she glared fiercely at Keira. Just as she was about to say something, she noticed Keira’s pale face, devoid of any color…

Holly stood up abruptly, panic stricken. “Keira, what’s

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Keira felt a dull pain in her lower abdomen, but it was bearable.

She grabbed Holly’s wrist and said, “I need to go to the bathroom.”

“I’ll give you a hand.”

Holly supported Keira’s arm and guided her to the bathroom, quietly waiting outside.

However, she couldn’t help but feel worried.

She noticed how pale Keira’s face looked and her cold sweat. Could she really be anemic?

Meanwhile, in the visitation room at the detention

center.

Poppy came over with a smile on her face and flattered her daughter. “Isla, how come you have time to see

me?”

This isn’t a good place. It could

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a faint smile from Isla,

immediately expressed her concern. “What’s wrong? You look

it Keira again? Did she disrespect you

bitter smile. “Yes, it’s about Keira, but she hasn’t been disrespectful

of time she gets herself into trouble. Who did she offend this time? Did she get

came over her face at

Kiera’s misfortune.

and found

foolish.

like this, wearing everything on her sleeve,

her emotions.

on earth Poppy had managed to swap her place

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after a brief flicker in them. “It’s not that she offended someone.

that reprobate be sentenced to death? She won’t bother

Isla was speechless.

at Poppy with sympathy, then coughed slightly. “She

who she… Who?! Isla, who did you say? Finley?

at the table, her

had one brother. Even though he used to mess things

from her. When she refused, during the tug of war, Finley accidentally fell onto a steel bar and was pierced through the chest… He died on the spot. Aunt

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get over-excited. Keira is, after all, Dr. South and your daughter. She should indeed be very rich, but five million is still no small sum. It’s only normal for her to not

her up, I should have drowned

an immediate warning from a

while, Poppy calmed down a bit, but the fun her eyes showed no sign

both your close relatives. I think you have the

tears streaming down from he reddened eyes. She reassured Isla. “Don’t worry, Isla, I’m fine…

speak, “Alright, you should go back. I…I’ll go and

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“Wh

her? A death-row inmate! I can’t wait to see

disbelief. “Aunt Hill, Keira is

That’s letting

on purpose, and she must be scared as well. If you happen to see her

comfort her.”

what she

“She’s also held here?!”

she hasn’t been sentenced yet, so she’s temporarily detained in a single room. It should be close to

single rooms were all in

place.

eyes, revealing a

“That’s good.”

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Hill, it’s about time. I need to

settle down with the

already left the visiting room, completely disregarding

station when she saw her

came early in the morning again, asking about our decision on her pre-trial releas to medical reasons. Judging by the suspect’s look now, she seems

or not?”

upon

She was about

also heard the conversation,

once “Alrandy

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“She’s

you forgotten how she fooled you yesterday? You believe this? I remember you made an oath last night that if she gets a pre-trial release, you would quit the police force. You didn’t

clenched her jaw. “Captain Lincoln, she really isn’t

Captain Lincoln wasn’t convinced.

detained for just one day, and she’s already not feeling well. The

about to reply, Isla stepped forward “Hello,

looked at

frowned slightly. “What are you doing

as she pulled Holly aside, “Dr.

serious expression. She knew that Isla was Keira’s sister. In

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and stopped bullying Keira

wasn’t aware of the

She moved aside with Isla and asked with concern, “What’s

“She probably got her period. Every month during this time, she suffers, and

women. You understand.”

Holly immediately relaxed.

long as

her hand. “Holly, we were classmates back in middle school. Can you help Kei? Agree to her pretrial release,

Holly’s face suddenly darkened.

We look pale and anemic.

is

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at Captain Lincoln. “She doesn’t qualify for pre-trial release.

Captain Lincoln look satisfied. “Good. You

longer and immediately walked away, up the

was a policewoman waiting for her. As soon as she saw Keira, she scoffed. “Miss Olsen, is it just your

seemed weak as she was hurried back the

entered, everything before her eye turned black as

getting more

still couldn’t get over the image of Keira’s pale bloodless face from her

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suppress her kindness, she poured a cup

water from her flask and walked to

detention center.

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Olsen, wake up.

noticed Keira’s

Keira opened

from weakness.

“Alright.”

policewoman quickly assisted her to the bed and asked, “How do you

said, “I’m anemic. Get Ho Sims to do another blood test. It should

Keira. “Dr.

again.”

pursed her lips. “Then you can draw my blood and

said, “Fine, I’ll

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forensic department.”

she left

she was suddenly stopped by

turned to her,

to the ward where Keira was. “That’s my daughter. Is she

taken aback. “She’s

sharing prison

my daughter. You check our

system, and verified their identities. They were inde

thought for a moment, recalling Keira’s condition, and

lying on the single bed, had just closed her

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the door was

doctor

eyelids to see a figure walking in, followed

Keira stiffened.

of when she was five

enough warm clothes in winter,

time she got sick, Poppy would lock her away, not letting her go outside. Whenever Mrs. Olsen out, she would always come to

medication.

moment Mrs. Olsen left, Poppy would rush over to her, grab her throat, and force her to throw the medicine she

ear. “You don’t deserve medicine! Just live with

deserve this, bitch! Aren’t you mighty? How

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you dared to defy me, throwing me into this jail. I’ll

you…”

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the woman, causing Keira to instinctively huddle, just like when she was a child, wishing she could reduce herself to as

she was back to being a

was

was suffering from extreme dizziness caused by anemia, which made her unable to distinguish betweer reality and memory, with

soft whisper. “Mom, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have gotten

pain still

in front of her still

her lips together

that pleading was useless, and she could only

The pain persisted.

You killed my brother! You’ll pay with your

to push away the woman forcefully,

toleration at ten years old, eleven years

she was thirteen and had moved onto

school.

Poppy’s height. She pushed the woman away, saying, “Since

packed a few worn-out clothes and without hesitation,

her in the world, but

was vast and boundless. Everywhere but

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family could be

up, and

her eyes, waking up from her

sharply at Poppy, who was right in

her.

throat, “Bitch, what are you looking at? You should die! You have to pay for

all her strength, Keira grabbed Poppy’s wrist and

she was about to charge again, a voic

see Holly, wide-eyed, standing at the door. She then unhurriedly entered

gaze swept across Poppy

hallucinating? Were these

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claim to be mother

sprawled out on the bed again without the energy to even move a

“You’re just in time. I’m anemic…even if you don’t

for intravenous infusion, and give

shown? You pushed me! I say

her ey and push Poppy away. The ruthlessness in Keira’s ey made Holly feel as if

Isla’s words, she clenched her fists and declared, “Keira, I won’t be

prison guard, “They were

confinement!!”

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of the

bail had been denied, and he said helplessly, “Mr. Horton, if we want to appeal, we would have to

at this, looking

“We can wait another day, but the day after

clearly feeling

inside came over and said to Captain Lincoln, “Captain Lincoln, I think Keira looks really unwell. Women do tend to get anemic during their

to leave stopped in his tracks, turning panicked, “Did

expression darkened, “What’s

Keira doesn’t get her iron supplements on time, she must have severe anemia now! But what do we

“What do we do?”

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the holding area!!

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Samuel was stunned.

his senses, he hurried to Lewis’s side. “Mr. Horton, are you planning on… breaking

Lewis walked straight from the lobby to the detention center

with his actions.

are quite bold! Surely,

“What else can I do? Can your boss

“Definitely not!”

tomorrow. There was this time when iron wasn’t administered in time, and she fell into

resuscitate her…”

said that, he got anxious and added angrily, “Her illness is indeed strange. Anyone else would think we’re lying to them. We can’t wait any longer!

let’s risk it!”

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Lewis had already rushed

the entrance. “This is a prison. Unauthorized personnel are

ignored them and made his

something was wrong from

gun at Lewis. “Mr. Horton,

shoot!”

turned around and glanced at him,

at the dark

It was so terrifying!

two of them halt, Captain Lincoln

the Horton family couldn’t be arrested so lightly. He asked,

to say that he was

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the bathroom, but I ended up here

Samuel was dumbfounded.

at Lewis in shock, his

the marriage of Keira and Lewis was

made sense that Lewis didn’t want to risk his

couldn’t abandon

Lewis turned and began to walk away, Samuel stayed where he

at him. “Mr. Morgan, aren’t you leaving

was terrified, but he took

not…”

finish

standing next to Captain Lincoln, suddenly took action. He quickly moved to the captain, grasping the latter’s trigger hand. The captain’s hand went limp involuntarily,

Lewis’s hand.

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but the next moment, he suddenly felt an

was pointing the gun at

Captain Lincoln was shocked.

He was completely dumbfounded!

Samuel were notable businessmen from Oceanion. They were the type who were always accompanied

never expected that Lewis would

also stunned, watching

thinking that at worst, he could lie on the ground and refuse to move, forcing these

expect Lewis to resort to

against

Horton, if you put down the

Lincoln held up both

experienced and remained

voice said, “Sorry, but I’m desperate to