Victoria immediately moved toward that car.

She caught a glimpse of someone opening the door, and the first thing to come out was a pair of leather

shoes.

Next came black trousers, straight legs, and then…

Victoria deliberately walked unsteadily, pretending to be drunk, and when the person finally got out of the car, she threw herself at him.

“Ouch…

Victoria let out a soft cry, then collapsed onto the man and rubbed herself against him. “Mr. Horton, I’m sorry, I just sprained my ankle.”

After saying this, she lowered her head, feigning shyness.

She had expected that the person would be a refined and gentle man, but instead, she heard an elderly voice saying, “Young lady, are you alright?”

Victoria stiffened and turned around abruptly to see an old man holding her: she straightened up

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immediately in fright. “Who are you?!”

The driver also got out of the car, and upon hearing this, he immediately scolded. “This is Mr. Horton. Behave yourself!”

Mr. Horton…

He looked to be in his sixties, so could he be Lewis

Horton’s father, Nathan Horton?

Victoria’s complexion turned pale instantly, and she immediately stood up straight. “Mr. Horton, I’m sorry. I was just…”

She glanced at the ground, pointing to the pebbles beneath her feet. “It was an accident.”

Nathan coughed and looked down at his hand.

The woman who had just fallen into his arms had also rubbed against him, letting him grasp the smooth sensation he had longed for, and in that moment, he felt as though he had grown younger!

He looked at the young woman with a smile. “Which family are you from?”

Victoria laughed with her head down. “I’m a foster daughter of the Olsen family.”

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that, she heaved a sigh. “Now

own.”

“Why do you

just didn’t fit in anymore, so I moved out… But it’s okay. I’m

well, yet you’re about to cry? Is it because the Olsen family’s biological

allowing you to stay

immediately waved her hands. “No, no. It’s not

already

spent all his time away from home,

if he was dying over the passing of his late

bit happy, thinking that if Lewis fell apart

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revert to the control of the first

branch!

to his surprise, upon arriving in Clance, the young man

power!

the head of the Horton family, Lewis even began

arranged marriages.

Nathan’s knowledge, an engagement was set up with the Olsen family, solidifying Lewis’s position in both the Horton family and in Clance!

for this marriage, Lewis would lower himself to stay by his fiancée’s side…

all that previous aloofness was fake.

Lewis was just like him, a man who would give up a woman for the sake of family business! He thought, “Let’s see

whom he had

I

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you and that Lewis was going to get engaged to that woman, I would

agreed to

fancy Mr. Horton too… My brother had planned to engage him with me, but unfortunately, someone beat us to it… After my sister came home, she must have heard the news,

the angrier

SO

see Uncle Olsen and ask him how he raised such a good daughter who has the gall to keep a

a side door. “I’ll go check. They should be here soon. The banquet is about to start, and the Olsen family is one of the most important guests. They

to hold Nathan’s other

with a smile, “Alright.”

10:15

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they saw that the hall was already bustling with

Mrs. Horton rested upstairs and wasn’t

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