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Lewis was also wearing a black wool coat today, his imposing demeanor on a par with that of the handsman

facing Keira.

He got out of the car with a cold expression and went inside, but it seemed he sensed something, and he

turned to look toward Keira.

Seeing the girl waving at him, Lewis's expression softened.

It was only then he noticed that there was someone sitting across from Keira.

He was about to see who it was when his phone

suddenly rang.

Lewis immediately answered, and a shrill voice cfrom the other side. “Lewis, where are you? | want to

see you!”

Lewis frowned. “Sorry, I'm having dinner with my wife.”

“Can you cover, please? Lewis, when we were kids, you promised to marrywhen we grew up, how can

you not come? I'm waiting for you!”

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Madeleine started to cry, a sound that only made Lewis feel waves of irritation.

At nine years old, he was sold by Oliver to traffickers

and was detained in a mountain village with a group of

children.

At that time, all the other children were trembling with fear, crying out for their parents, all except for a four-

year-old girl who was different.

She asked curiously, “They're neither hitting us nor scolding us, and they even give us food, why are you

crying?”

That was when Lewis started to notice her.

Later, the traffickers saw that she was well-behaved and obedient, so they let her go outside to work and

gradually began to trust her.

She becfriends with Lewis.

When Lewis asked her name, she replied that her mother hadn’t named her yet... At that time, he was almost

shocked. A four-year-old child who didn’t have a nyet? How badly did her family treat her?

No wonder she even felt that the traffickers were

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better than her mother...

As twent by, there were fewer and fewer children around, and Lewis knew he couldn’t wait any longer. Aside

from his grandmother, no one in the Horton family genuinely wanted him back; he had to save himself.

He asked the only little girl who could move freely to put sleeping pills in the traffickers’ food. At first, the girl

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didn’t want to do it.

She said, “Brother, the traffickers always leteat half a bread at every meal. | don’t want to go home. Do you

want to go home?”

He answered, “I do.”

The little girl fell silent for a moment. “Okay, then I'll help you.”

She drugged the food and unlocked the door.

All the children ran out.

Lewis also wanted to run, but seeing the little girl

obediently sitting at the doorway, he asked, “Why don’t you run?”

“I don’t want to go home.”

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But she had to go home. She was the one who had let all the children escape. If she stayed here, the

traffickers would kill her.

Lewis grabbed her hand, “Then chwith me.”

The little girl's eyes lit up, “Okay.”

They walked a very long distance until the police found them and then used the child trafficking records to

locate their homes for them.

At that time, Lewis lived in his old home, not yet in

Oceanion.

The little girl needed to be taken to her hin Oceanion. She clung to Lewis's hand and wouldn't let go, crying

loudly. Her voice was very high-pitched. “Brother, you said you'd takewith you, you liar!”

Lewis looked at the police officer. “I want to take her

hwith me, and she wants to cwith me, too.

The police officer couldn’t help but smile and shake hi head. “You're both still young. Each of you needs to go

back to your respective homes. You can’t take her

away...

The girl cried even harder, her face covered in tears.

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Her eyes were barely open, and she looked extremely disheveled. “I don’t want to go home! | want to go with

him Big brother, what do | have to do to beca part of your family?”

She looked so unsightly while crying, but Lewis thought of the three months they were held captive, where his

reserved personality meant the other children didn’t interact with him. Only the little girl stayed with him...

He thought about how the little girl had drugged the

human trafficker in order to save him.

Lewis looked at her and said seriously, “How about this? When you turn twenty, I'll cto marry you! Once I've

married you, you can chwith me!”

“Really?”

“Yes!”

“Pinky promise]!”

Later, after he returned home, his grandmother, wanting to protect him from further abuse by the first

branch of the family, sent him abroad to study while

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he was still very young.

It wasn’t until he gradually built his own power that he sent people back to look for the little girl.

But too much thad passed, and the police station from that era didn’t have internet, and there had been a

fire, destroying all the records.

He could only find the officer who was responsible for the trafficking case back then and searched house by

house until he finally found Madeleine.

Madeleine wasn’t from a good background; her father was an alcoholic, and her mother a gambling addict.

She had been bullied since she was little and didn’t.

even have a nuntil she was four years old. It was only because of the human trafficking case and the

police’s requirement that she was given a name.

She knew everything about Lewis and the little girl

past.

Clutching at his collar, she cried out, “If it hadn't been for your effort to rescue everyone, | might have been sold

to a nice family and lived a peaceful life! Instead of coming back to this hell! Why did you cto pickun so

late?!”

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At 18, Madeleine was nothing like the stubborn, obstinate, yet bright little girl of her childhood. The doctors said

that growing up in such an environment, she was bound to have problems.

Madeleine was severely depressed and had post-traumatic stress disorder.

She was in a complete mental breakdown.

She was no longer the person he remembered.

But Lewis still honored his promise and took her abroad to help her escape that cesspool.

Madeleine kept asking him to marry her...

However, Lewis didn’t know if a child’s promise made at the age of nine could be taken seriously.

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So he kept delaying the fulfillment of his promise.

As Lewis cback to his senses, he wanted to tell her he was already married and ask Madeleine to keep her

distance in the future, but before he could speak, her mobile phone was snatched away, and the voice of a

medical staff person cthrough.

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“Mr. Horton, please cquickly, Miss Davis is having another episode! We can’t control her! Miss Davis has

severe self-harming tendencies right now. She’s holding a fruit knife, and there's a risk to her life! Only you can

redeem her! She'll calm down only if you

come!”

Lewis took a deep breath, clenched his fingers tightly, and could only say in resignation, “I'm on my way now.”

He turned and got into the car.

In the end, the root of the matter was that he owed

Madeleine.

After getting in the car, he sent a Whatmessage to Keira. “Sorry, something urgent cup.”

Keira watched him leave, still in a daze.

It wasn’t until her phone vibrated that she received Lewis's Whatmessage. She looked down at it an

replied, “It’s okay. Next time.”

Putting down her phone, she said to the middle-aged

man, “My husband had something urgent and couldn't

make it.”

“He stood you up. That's not nice,” Uncle Olsen

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Keira didn’t defend Lewis; she had gotten used to this

man suddenly disappearing.

As the dishes were served, Uncle Olsen suddenly looked at Keira. “I haven't asked yet, what's your

name?”

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