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Lewis’s gaze was fixed on that last sentence, on the name and phone number.
“My name is Keira Olsen…”
His eyes widened as he suddenly remembered what Keira had said to him in the hospital, that when she was young, she also saved a big brother…
How had he not thought of it?
Perhaps that big brother was himself!
At that moment, Lewis suddenly wanted to laugh, but he couldn’t control the tears welling up in his eyes, feeling as if he had finally seen the way out of a hopeless situation.
There was no need for divorce now.
He and Keira could finally be together!
He took out his cell phone, about to call Keira, but he
hesitated for a moment.
He wanted to prepare a surprise for Keira.
Although both had acknowledged their relationship,
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he had never actually proposed to her…
Even the photo on their marriage certificate wasn’t actually her.
So, he still had to go to the courthouse that afternoon, not to divorce but to change the marriage certificate.
He wanted to officially register with Keira and to become lifelong partners.
He called Tom instead. “Help me prepare some things…”
After he had everything prepared, Tom couldn’t help but hesitate before asking, “Boss, this looks like a marriage proposal. It doesn’t seem like you’re getting a divorce… Are you planning to leave Miss Olsen with a memorable impression even in divorce?”
Lewis’s response was very short. “Get lost.”
“Alright then.”
“Wait.”
Tom, about to hang up, brought the phone to his ear again. “Boss, any other orders?”
By now, Lewis had calmed down.
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He trusted Keira, knowing she wouldn’t joke with him about something like this.
But he also wondered that if Keira were to ask, how
should he respond? How did he mistake Madeleine for
her?
Lewis frowned, his expression turning serious. “Help me find out exactly how Madeleine fooled us!”
Initially, when Madeleine lost the token, Lewis suspected whether she was genuine.
But later, Madeleine not only recounted the details of his time spent with that little girl, but even the lie detector showed no fluctuations.
That lie detector was among the world’s most advanced devices, which under normal circumstances wouldn’t make mistakes unless the person had
undergone espionage training.
Madeleine was a mental patient, so how could she
have received such training?
So, what was really going on?
Upon hearing this, Tom was taken aback. “Boss, what do you mean she fooled us?”
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He suddenly understood. “You mean to say…”
“Right.”
Lewis’s voice trembled with excitement. “The person who saved me back then wasn’t her; it was Keira.”
He had spent the last several days obsessing, pondering over the key to breaking the impasse.
But he never expected it to be her.
Thank goodness it was her.
Half an hour later, Tom relayed the investigation results to Lewis. “I just talked to the attending doctor and had Madeleine undergo another EEG and so on,
and we found that she hasn’t deceived us at all.”
Lewis scoffed. “You mean to say that Madeleine was the person from back then? Keira is lying?”
The chilly foreboding that seeped through the voi made Tom so scared that he immediately said, “It is like that. After a few psychiatrists put the whole thin together, they reached a conclusion.”
“What?”
“Madeleine didn’t deceive us, she deceived herself.”
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Lewis was stunned. “What do you mean?”
Tom sighed. “The doctors said that they had monitored Madeleine’s mental state for many years, and they found that her mental health was already not normal since she was young. Over the years, the reason she could always pass the lie detector test is that… she
believes she hasn’t lied.”
“When she was young, she was frequently abused by her parents, so by the time she was trafficked, she was already mentally disturbed.
“Indeed, Madeleine was kidnapped together with you.
“Among the group of children, she silently witnessed your interactions with Miss Olsen, saw the mutual redemption between you two and everything Miss Olsen did to help you. She heard the promises you made to Miss Olsen.
“When she was rescued and returned home, only to be abused by her parents again, she always felt that you would come to save her.
“Over time, she put herself in Miss Olsen’s place, truly believing that it was she who saved you back then and began to see you as her only salvation. That’s why,
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despite years of treatment, there was no
improvement.”
Hearing the results of Tom’s investigation, Lewis was slightly taken aback.
The anger that was originally there suddenly couldn’t find an outlet.
He had thought that everything was Madeleine’s deception, that he was foolish, and had been tricked for five years without recognizing that she was an imposter.
But he didn’t expect that it was like this…
However, this seemed to make everything fall into place.
Lewis’s expression changed.
He remembered…
Among the kidnapped children, there was indeed a dirty little child, and her small face was always hidden under her hair. She always watched him and the little girl in silence…
Keira was different.
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No matter how bad the environment, every day when Keira woke up, she would wash her face clean…
The personalities of these two people were completely different, which was why when he first found Madeleine, he sensed something was off.
That’s why he used the lie detector.
Only at that time, he thought Madeleine’s mental abnormality was due to her condition.
Now, he just wanted to slap himself. How could he have mixed up the two people?! How could he have mistaken her for someone else? If no mistake was made, if they had found Keira sooner, then maybe Keira wouldn’t have had to suffer so much later in her
life.
What was Keira doing five years ago? She left the Olsen family and was working part-time to put her through school…
Thinking of her numerous part-time jobs, Lewis suddenly clutched his chest, feeling heartbroken.
Tom cautiously asked, “Boss, what should we do about
Miss Davis’s situation now?”
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It seemed somewhat inhumane to abandon someone with mental illness just like that.
Lewis was silent for a long time, then finally let out a cold laugh. “When she wakes up, tell her the truth. From now on, her affairs are your responsibility. Her treatment costs should not be interrupted, but I won’t see her again.”
“Yes.”
Tom said nothing more, for this was already the best
outcome.
Elsewhere.
Keira sent away the reporters and then received another text message. It was from the person fro st night. “Keira, meet me at Fairy Groove Café at 11.
Keira rushed there immediately.
As soon as she entered and found a seat, a person appeared in front of her.
Keira looked up, her pupils slightly constricting. “It’s you.”
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