Lewis was striding toward his car at this mont.”
He looked down at his phone.
On the phone was a live broadcast from the entrance
of the Olsen residence.
Madeleine’s mother had driven Keira into a corner!
Lewis was very anxious, so much so that when he heard the driver’s words, without a second thought,
he
drove away imdiately!
Now, the reporters on the phone were giving Keira a
hard ti.
“Mrs. Horton, Miss Madeleine’s mother is pleading with you, won’t you say even a word?”
“That’s a human life; how can you be so cold-hearted?”
“Do you and Mr. Horton really plan to leave Miss
Madeleine to die?”
“Since it was agreed that Miss Madeleine would be married to Mr. Horton, why did Mr. Horton have a
change of heart? Was it because you intervened? Mrs.
Stubborn Five
Horton, don’t you feel guilty? In the dead of night,
don’t you suddenly feel scared?”
The reporters’ questions were becoming more and more tricky.
s of abuse also swept across the live
broadcast chat.
“Dammit! A mistress is taking over?”
“I feel that since you made a promise, you should keep it. How can you abandon her when she is
ntally unwell?”
“Isn’t this the very definition of biting the hand that feeds you?”
“If Miss Madeleine finds out when she grows up that the person she saved would treat her this way, I
wonder if the younger her would still save him!”
“A real-life version of The Farr and the Viper story!”
“That’s not even the most important thing! Isn’t the most important thing about Mrs. Horton? She
doesn’t say a word. Is she planning to play dead?”
11.01
The public’s accusations made Lewis press the accelerator furiously.
He knew these comnts wouldn’t hurt Keira. Her ntal resilience had always been strong, but even
so, he didn’t want her to be hurt in the slightest.
He ran red lights and sped all the way.
He wanted to tell the reporters it wasn’t like that at all.
He wanted to help clear Keira’s na!
But just as he was turning a corner, Keira’s distinct, cool voice erged from the live broadcast.
“Since you’re all so interested in our private life as a couple, then today I’ll take the ti to explain it
thoroughly here.”
Upon hearing this, Lewis frowned.
Keira was always a woman of few words, not good at explaining. Was she overwheld by the
pressure today?
As he was pondering, he heard her voice again.
“Have you ever played house?”
All the reporters were slightly stunned, and then
soone answered, “Yes.”
“When you played house and told a girl you would marry her when you grew up, did you actually marry
her when you grew up?”
The reporters were instantly at a loss.
Soone reacted quickly, obviously soone arranged by the Horton family’s first branch. “You can’t
say it like that. We were just playing, but Mr. Horton and Miss Madeleine’s situation is clearly different.
Miss Madeleine saved Mr. Horton’s life!”
Keira looked at that reporter and smiled. “Yes, she saved his life, didn’t she? So, is it because she
saved Mr. Horton’s life that she developed depression?”
That reporter was speechless.
Keira then lowered her eyes and continued. “Five years ago when Mr. Horton found her, Madeleine
was being beaten by her mother and father, wanting to sell her to soone else as their daughter-in-
law. Mrs. Davis, at that ti, you certainly didn’t have the love for your daughter that you do now.”
This statent modo Madeleine’s mother choke un
and then she wailed. “I just wanted her to get married.
I didn’t want her to die!”
“Do you know how Madeleine’s ntal illness ca
about?”
Keira looked at everyone around her. “You’re all only concerned about whether Mr. Horton abandoned
her
or not, but have you ever thought about the cause of her illness? It’s because of the abuse she suffered
from her parents that she lost all hope in life! Lewis could have saved her, but he was rely her
dicine! Since when did a person’s death cease to be about holding the executioner accountable and
instead beco about questioning the dicine?”
The reporters were stunned into silence once again.
Keira stepped forward. “Madeleine has been suffering from severe depression and autism for five
years. If she had gotten married, what state would she be in now? Either living her days in a daze or
she would have already jumped off a building, wouldn’t she? Instead of, as of now, rationally telling
everyone that she will die
without Mr. Horton!”
All the reporters and people watching the live
broadcast fell silent.
Keira continued. “Over these years, the amount of money Madeleine spent on treatnts both at ho
and abroad is sothing an ordinary family cannot
afford! And when she chose to return to her country, Mr. Horton established a ntal hospital here for
her! During these five years, whenever she called, Mr. Horton was there at her beck and call… I ask
you all,
who can do that?
“Now, because Madeleine is gravely ill and attempted suicide, you bla Mr. Horton for the dicine
not being administered in ti. Why don’t you ask the assailants why they hurt her, making her end up
like
this?!”
Keira suddenly turned her head towards Madeleine’s mother. “You repeatedly claim it’s for Madeleine’s
own good, but are you even fit to be a mother?”
Madeleine’s mother swallowed hard. “I don’t care, my daughter is about to die now, and it’s because of
Mr. Horton. You say I abused my daughter, do you have evidence? Without evidence, don’t talk
nonsense
here!”
Keira scoffed. “Everyone on your street knows about you and your husband abusing your child. Just
ask any elder, and we’ll find out, right? Evidence is sothing the police will look for.”
Madeleine’s mother was caught off guard once again.
“But you’ve reminded , I’m going to call the police now and report you for abusing Madeleine,
resulting in her ntal disorder!”
Having said that, Keira took out her phone and dialed the police in front of the reporters.
Holly arrived quickly, filed a case, and arrested
Madeleine’s mother.
Madeleine’s mother was terrified, but thinking of the money promised by the Horton family’s first
branch, her eyes lit up again as she angrily shouted, “Mrs. Horton, by doing this, are you and Mr.
Horton plannin to wash your hands of my daughter completely? There’s a saying, ‘If you save
soone, save them all the way.’ Don’t you understand? My daughter saved his life. How can he fall in
love with you, a mistress!”
The other reporters turned their attention back to
Keira, also asking, “Mrs. Horton, what you said just now made sense, but the problem now is that the
dicine can’t stop. What are you and Mr. Horton planning to do?”
Keira looked at the reporter who had spoken, her gaze
resolute.
anwhile, Lewis suddenly had a bad feeling and quickly pulled the car over to the roadside.
After screeching to a halt, he heard the cool voice of a woman coming from the cara.
“Since everyone is here, I’ll clarify right now. I’m not the mistress, Mr. Horton and I are in a relationship
out of free will, and he never dated Madeleine after
growing up. He just wanted to help her with her treatnt. As for the issue of the dicine that
concerns everybody the most…’
Keira looked toward the cara, her gaze resolute as she stared straight ahead.
“Don’t worry; the dicine won’t stop because Mr. Horton has chosen to divorce .”
Lewis’s heart clenched tightly, and he suddenly found
it hard to breathe!
She said it…
She announced it in front of the reporters.
Lewis slamd his fist onto the steering wheel.
She’d saved his face, made everyone think he was a good man…
But he never wanted to be a good man!
Lewis watched as the reporters left satisfied, as the comnts in the live feed praised them…
After the live broadcast ended, he received a text
ssage from her. “et at the courthouse at 2 p.m. Bring all your docunts this ti.:
Lewis stared at the ssage, his eyes bloodshot, and despite the heartache, he managed to reply,
“Alright.
He didn’t rember how he drove the car ho.
He parked the car in the parking lot and saw the driver of the Horton’s old house waiting there. “Mr.
Horton, why couldn’t you wait for and let finish what I was saying?”
The driver wiped the sweat from his forehead and sighed. “It’s because of that courier. The old master
insisted I tell you that it’s the courier you’ve been
looking forward to and the one you’ve been waiting for, sent by a person to Stubborn Five!”
Stubborn Five…
Lewis was stunned.
He looked at the driver incredulously, “You said…
who?”
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