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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.

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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?”

shouldn’t have come This isn’t a

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avid enthusiasm, she only received a faint smile from

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

it Keira again? Did

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

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

came over her face at

Kiera’s misfortune.

was choked and found Poppy more

foolish.

always been like this, wearing everything on her

her emotions.

earth Poppy had managed to swap her

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stroke

cast her eyes down after a brief flicker in them. “It’s not that she offended someone. She… she committed murder and

up. “Will that reprobate be sentenced to death? She won’t bother

Isla was speechless.

with sympathy, then

Isla, who did you say?

at the table, her

he used to

the tug of war, Finley accidentally fell onto a

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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 want

creature! She killed Finley over five million?! I shouldn’t have raised her up, I should have drowned her as soon as she was born! Where is she? I

excessive emotional reaction prompted an immediate warning from

calmed down a bit, but the fun her eyes

involved are both your close relatives. I think you have the right to know, s told you. Please don’t do anything

he reddened eyes. She reassured Isla. “Don’t

speak, “Alright, you should go back.

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“Wh

I can’t wait to see her executed!” Poppy

Hill, Keira is charged with manslaughter. The maximum sentence

be?! That’s letting her

purpose, and she must be scared as

comfort her.”

what she had

“She’s also held here?!”

detained in a single room. It should be close to where you are,

wards and single rooms

place.

her eyes, revealing a ferocious

“That’s good.”

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stood up. “Aunt Hill, it’s

marry Jake and settle down with the Horton family happily. Take care of yourself,

had already left the

station when she saw her old classmate Holly anxiously standing near

decision on her pre-trial releas to medical reasons. Judging by the suspect’s look now, she seems to be really anemic. So, is it

or not?”

frowned upon hearing

frailty. She was about to say

also heard the conversation,

at once “Alrandy protonding to

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“She’s not

you made an oath last night that if she gets a pre-trial release, you

jaw. “Captain Lincoln, she really

Lincoln wasn’t

day, and she’s already not feeling well. The

reply, Isla stepped forward “Hello, are you discussing

looked at

frowned slightly. “What are you doing

anxious as she pulled Holly

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

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to behave smarter and stopped bullying

Holly wasn’t aware of

with Isla and asked with concern, “What’s

got her period. Every month during

women. You understand.”

Holly immediately relaxed.

as Keira

“Holly, we were classmates back in middle school. Can

Holly’s face suddenly darkened.

every month. We look pale and anemic. We’re all old classmates. Let’s sign the papers

is

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doesn’t qualify for pre-trial

then did Captain Lincoln look satisfied. “Good.

to stay any longer and immediately walked away, up the stairs

she scoffed. “Miss Olsen, is it

she

her

getting

couldn’t get over the image

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to suppress her kindness,

from her flask and walked to

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up. What’s wrong with

Keira’s

opened her

usually strong-willed woman was trembling from

“Alright.”

the bed and asked, “How do you

pre even for Holly’s sake. She said,

Keira. “Dr.

again.”

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

I’ll get

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forensic department.”

said that, she left

was leaving, she was suddenly

policewoman turned to her, “What

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

policewoman was taken aback. “She’s

daughters sharing prison cells these

my daughter.

into system, and verified their identities. They

for a moment, recalling

bed, had just

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the door was

doctor

lifted her eyelids to see a figure walking in, followed by a chilling voice, “Keira, don’t be afraid. Mom

Keira stiffened.

to her weakness, memories of when she was five years old flooded into her

young age, without enough warm clothes in

would lock her away, not letting her go outside. Whenever Mrs. Olsen

medication.

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

her ear. “You don’t deserve medicine! Just

Aren’t you mighty?

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hit her several times, and you dared to

you…”

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Keira to instinctively huddle, just like

back to being a

room was dimly

unable to distinguish

pleaded in a soft whisper. “Mom, I’m sorry.

sharp pain still

still pinched her arms, abdomen, and thighs

her lips

that pleading was useless, and she could only

The pain persisted.

were unabated. “Die! Die! You killed my brother!

to push away

the toleration at ten years old, eleven years

was thirteen and had moved

school.

She pushed the

a few worn-out clothes and

was no home for her in the world, but

vast and

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family could be her

grew up, and

opened her eyes, waking up from her

Poppy, who was right in

her.

waist, faltered and immediately reached for Keira’s throat, “Bitch, what are you

strength, Keira grabbed Poppy’s wrist and forcefully pushed her

was about to charge again, a voic came

turned around to see Holly, wide-eyed, standing at the door. She then unhurriedly

gaze swept across

hallucinating? Were

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claim to

her strength. She was sprawled out on the bed again without the energy

in time. I’m anemic…even if you don’t release me on bail, you

intravenous infusion, and give

shown? You pushed me! I say you’re faking it! You fought in here, and you’ll

The ruthlessness in Keira’s ey made Holly feel as if she didn’t know

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

prison guard, “They were fighting. Immediately take them

confinement!!”

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entrance of the

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

frowned at this,

but the day

clearly feeling

said to Captain Lincoln, “Captain Lincoln, I think Keira looks really unwell.

his tracks, turning panicked, “Did Keira’s cycle

darkened,

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

“What do we do?”

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hesitation, Lewis turned

the holding area!!

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Samuel was stunned.

hurried to Lewis’s side. “Mr. Horton, are you

straight from the lobby to the

with his actions.

quite bold! Surely, this isn’t

coldly, “What else can I

“Definitely not!”

iron wasn’t administered in

resuscitate her…”

added angrily, “Her illness is indeed strange. Anyone else would think we’re

let’s risk it!”

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to himself, Lewis had already

a prison. Unauthorized personnel are not

and made

something was wrong from

gun at

shoot!”

glanced at

with fear. Looking at the

It was so terrifying!

them halt, Captain

couldn’t be arrested so

about to

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looking for the bathroom, but I ended up here by

Samuel was dumbfounded.

looked at Lewis in shock,

of Keira and Lewis was like

it made sense that Lewis didn’t want to risk

Samuel couldn’t abandon his

Lewis turned and began to walk away, Samuel

at him. “Mr. Morgan,

terrified, but he took

not…”

finish saying “going,” disaster

suddenly took action. He quickly moved to the captain, grasping the latter’s trigger hand. The captain’s hand went limp involuntarily, and the gun ended

Lewis’s hand.

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gun, but the next moment, he suddenly

the

Captain Lincoln was shocked.

He was completely dumbfounded!

a mistake, but Lewis and Samuel were notable businessmen from Oceanion. They were

that Lewis would

watching Lewis in

the ground

Lewis to

was against the

you put down the gun now, I won’t

Lincoln held up

experienced and remained

said, “Sorry, but I’m desperate to

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