How I Accidentally Married a Billionaire
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Chapter 235: Chapter 235 Chapter 235: Chapter 235 Lewis Horton knew Kiera Olsen was comforting him, so he played along and changed the subject.

Kiera Olsen then said, “I was also kidnapped as a child. I was locked up with an older brother…”

Kidnapped?

Lewis Horton was slightly stunned. “How old were you then?”

Just as Kiera Olsen was about to answer, Madeleine Davis suddenly coughed on the hospital bed, and then her body started to contort!

“Not good! Blood has gotten into the trachea! Arrange for a thoracotomy immediately!”

Madeleine Davis was issued her fifth critical condition notice.

Lewis Horton’s attention was immediately diverted as he once again stared intently at the hospital bed.

Kiera Olsen also lost the mood to talk about the past.

It was unclear how much time had passed–it seemed like three hours, or maybe five–Madeleine Davis was finally rescued.

When Kiera heard the doctor say there was no immediate danger to her life, she let out a big sigh of relief.

Turning her head, she saw Lewis Horton’s tightly clenched fist finally beginning to relax…

Kiera Olsen soothingly patted the back of his hand.

Lewis Horton then gave a bitter smile.

Madeleine Davis had multiple fractures all over her body, and various internal organs were ruptured. Pushed out of the operating room, she seemed to regain some sensation; even though she was unconscious, she waved her arms around, calling out, “Brother Lewis…”

Her flailing made it impossible for the doctors and nurses to continue administering IV fluids.

The doctor held down her hand, but she kept calling out, “Big brother…”

She struggled fiercely, trying to grasp something.

The doctor urgently said, “Mr. Horton, she needs to be calmed down, or else the life we just saved won’t last!”

Lewis Horton looked at her for a long, long time, and finally took a step forward: “I’m here.”

The uneasy Madeleine Davis immediately calmed down; she seemed to sense his voice and instinctively grabbed Lewis Horton’s hand.

Lewis Horton tried to pull his hand away, but Madeleine Davis immediately furrowed her brow, “Big brother…”

This address reminded him of Little Bun curled up asleep in his arms when he was a child.

Lewis Horton paused in his movement.

The doctor beside him immediately made a pleading gesture, “Mr. Horton, we barely snatched her back from the hands of death…”

Lewis Horton clenched his jaw and glanced at Kiera Olsen.

Uncertainty and conflict filled his eyes.

Kiera Olsen tightened her fists.

She said nothing, just watched silently as Lewis Horton accompanied Madeleine Davis into the ICU.

Kiera Olsen stood outside the ICU, looking inside through a glass door.

She and Lewis Horton were only a few meters apart, but that glass door seemed to separate them completely.

Doctors and nurses moved back and forth, checking Madeleine Davis’s vital signs every half hour.

Lewis Horton was inside the ICU, unable to hear anything outside.

But Kiera Olsen heard several expert doctors gathered together discussing:

“It’s a medical miracle that we were able to save her life!”

“It’s mainly because Mr. Horton is willing to spend the money. She’s had her blood replaced four times over. It’s also luck. There was a bleeding point we just couldn’t locate. In the end, we took a guess, and it turned out to be right!”

“But even though her life was saved, she will end up with a lifelong disability. I really don’t understand why she would do this to herself…”

“You just came over for a consultation and didn’t get it; she was brought over from the adjacent psychiatric hospital… I heard it from her primary doctor…”

The doctor looked around and began to speak:

“She has severe depression and can’t recover from it, no matter how much medication she takes. It seems her only hope for living was Mr. Horton… But now that Mr. Horton has married a wife and doesn’t plan to visit her anymore, she committed suicide…”

Curious, someone nearby asked immediately, “What was her relationship with Mr. Horton?”

“They were said to be lovers. Mr. Horton had been treating her for about five or six years, mostly overseas in the past.”

“Ah? So Mr. Horton has fallen in love with someone else now?”

“Actually, having a girlfriend with mental illness is too much for anyone, isn’t it? It’s quite normal for him to fall in love with someone else…”

“Still, it feels somewhat heartless, given that he was her only hope. The moment he broke up with her, she couldn’t take it anymore…”

“Mr. Horton had publicly married already. How come she couldn’t take it just now?”

“I asked the attending doctor, and it seems Mrs. Horton was not pleased, so Mr. Horton told the patient he would no longer see her, which shocked her and led her to jump off the building. She was just brought in, and it was a terrible sight to behold…”

“…”

The group of people continued their chat as they walked away, moving to other wards to check on patients.

However, these words made Keira Olsen tense her jaw, wanting to say something, but not knowing what to say.

She understood Lewis Horton.

He had decisively chosen her over Madeleine Davis, which deeply moved her.

But now, she felt a chill even herself, seeing Madeleine Davis lying in the hospital bed!

It was a life!

Just yesterday, she had been alive and arguing with her, and today she was hanging by a thread…

But was a promise from childhood really that important? Did Lewis Horton deserve to have his life ruined over a single promise?

Suddenly, Keira Olsen thought of the big brother.

Her situation with the big brother was actually quite similar to that of Lewis Horton and Madeleine Davis.

She had, in a way, saved him back then, and he had promised to marry her, to take her to his home…

Although the big brother hadn’t come to find her in all these years.

But his words had indeed become her only hope of surviving upon returning home.

As she grew up, she realized that relying on others was never as good as relying on oneself.

She was living well now, and so she had completely moved on.

If she had been any weaker, if she hadn’t been strong enough, perhaps others might not have survived, right?

She hung her head, deep in thought.

“What are you thinking about?”

Lewis Horton’s voice suddenly sounded from above. Keira Olsen looked up and only then noticed that Lewis Horton had been standing in front of her for who knows how long.

The man looked exhausted, his eyes conveying a sense of powerlessness.

Keira Olsen didn’t want to put pressure on him, telling him, “You said yesterday that you wouldn’t see her anymore.”

She was never the tragic heroine in romance stories.

Keira Olsen blinked and suddenly spoke, “Thinking about the little brother I saved when I was a child.”

Lewis Horton sat down beside her, “What about it?”

Keira Olsen smiled, “I remembered him saying he would marry me and even gave a dowry. But I don’t need it now, should I return the dowry to him?”

Lewis Horton paused for a moment, then suddenly asked, “What dowry?”

Keira Olsen blinked, “When I was a child, I didn’t understand. I just found out when I went home this time that it seems quite valuable, maybe even a family heirloom or something…”

As she spoke, she took out the finely crafted Jade Ring from her pocket.