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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she heaved a sigh. “Now I

own.”

asked, “Why do you live on

the verge of tears. “Uncle Olsen found his biological daughter, and I just didn’t fit in anymore, so I moved out… But it’s okay. I’m living quite

well, yet you’re about to cry? Is it because

allowing

hands. “No, no. It’s not like that.

already

Lewis spent all his time away from home, reportedly chasing after his

Oceanion, Lewis acted as if he was dying over the passing of his late wife, and Nathan had thought Lewis was

thinking that if Lewis

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might revert to the control of

branch!

young man actually learned to curry favor with those in

power!

order to secure his position as the head of the

arranged marriages.

up with the Olsen family, solidifying Lewis’s position in

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

all that previous

that in the end, Lewis was just like him, a man who would give up a woman for the sake of family business! He thought, “Let’s see what right he has to laugh at me in the

and, therefore, had no good feelings for Lewis’s fiancée, whom he had not yet met. He said bluntly,

family. If I had known earlier that the

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was going to get

to

used to fancy Mr. Horton too… My brother had planned to engage him with me, but unfortunately, someone beat us

she spoke, the angrier Nathan

SO

ask him how he

should be here soon. The banquet is about to start, and the Olsen family is one of the most important guests.

also stepped forward to hold Nathan’s other arm. “Sir, let me walk with you.”

nodded with a

10:15

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the living room, they saw

disease, Old Mrs. Horton rested upstairs and wasn’t meeting guests in

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