A Thousand Needles for Love 6

A Thousand Needles for Love 6

The director pushed up her glasses and said with some regret, “Sorry, I don’t want to say this, but I have to.”

“Ms. Zimmer’s uterine cavity was badly damaged because of multiple abortions and repeated serious infections, so it would probably be very hard for her to get pregnant again.”

The air froze for a moment.

I thought of that tiny body thrown into the trash can, thought of his weak cries when he was just born, and tears just kept streaming down.

lan suddenly pulled me into his arms, his chin resting on the top of my head.

“It’s okay, Belle, be good, it’s okay.”

“I would take you to adopt one later, pick the cutest baby, okay?”

Dad wanted to lighten the sad mood and joked, “Why not let your brother get married early, have a kid, and let you help raise it, since he doesn’t have time anyway!”

I knew they were just trying to comfort me, so I threw myself into lan’s arms, wiped my tears on him, and acted all cute.

“lan, when were you gonna find me a sister-in-law and have twins, a boy and a girl? I could hold my little nephew in my left arm, my little niece in my right, and swing them on the swing!”

lan rubbed the back of my head, and he was unbelievably gentle.

Out of the corner of my eye, I seemed to see my mom and grandma exchange a complicated

look.

Meanwhile, in the living room of the Thornton’s mansion, the atmosphere was really tense.

Jacob sat on the sofa, with whip marks crisscrossing his back.

Dorothy Thornton leaned on her cane. With every word she said, she slammed the cane on the ground.

“What kind of family is the Zimmer family?!”

“Back then, your grandpa risked his life for that favor, just to get Madam Zimmer to agree to let Belle marry you!”

“You sure were something, treating a noble lady like livestock!”

Dorothy was shaking all over with anger.

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“Even after he died, that bitch Marcella threw him in the trash!”

“You little troublemaker, did you live up to the Thornton family’s ancestors?”

As she spoke, she slapped a file on Jacob’s face.

“Three months, get Isabelle back for me!”

“If you can’t get it back, you can forget about being the president of the Thornton Group! You should know very well, you’re not the only descendant of the Thornton family!”

Jacob licked his chapped lips and said hoarsely, “Isabelle loved me so much, getting her was just a wave of my hand, Grandma, the one I loved was Marcella…”

“Love?” Dorothy laughed angrily. “That woman put some kind of spell on you!”

“When she was in college, she made up dirty rumors to ruin Belle’s reputation, and now she’s pushing you to kill your own son! What’s so lovable about a woman as vicious as her?”

“I’m telling you right now, if you married a woman like that, the whole Thornton family would go down with you!”

“No! Right now! At this very moment! I’ve already buried half of the Thornton family with you!”

“Do you believe it, by tomorrow morning, half of our partners with the Thornton family will come to end the contract as soon as they hear about it.”

“The half that didn’t break the contract with us just didn’t have enough status and didn’t know who the Zimmer family was!”

Jacob held on and struggled to stand up.

“Grandma, you already hit me and yelled at me.”

“There’s something I still gotta say, you’re giving the Zimmer family way too much credit! Our Thornton family has been in business for a hundred years, it’s not like we don’t have any foundation! I just don’t believe that if we offend the Zimmer family, our whole Thornton family will be wiped out!”

As he spoke, he walked away without looking back.

Dorothy watched his back, his cane thumping hard on the ground, shaking her head nonstop.

“Ignorant kid!”

“You did business for a hundred years, but in other people’s eyes, you were just a nouveau

riche!”

Late at night, Jacob came back to the villa, all bruised.

The family doctor was already waiting in the living room and quickly put medicine on him

Somehow, he suddenly thought of my injuries and asked, “Belle’s injuries aren’t as bo

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right?”

The family doctor laughed along.

“Mr. Thornton was just joking. A C-section cuts through seven layers on the belly. You’ve got, at most, two layers here. Your injury isn’t even close to Mrs. Thornton’s. Besides-”

The family doctor paused.

Jacob felt a pang in his heart.

“What else?”

The family doctor’s hand shook, and the whole bottle of alcohol got poured all over Jacob’s

back.

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Jacob gasped in pain and slapped the table.

“What are you doing?”

The family doctor put down the bottle of alcohol, took off his medical gloves, and just tossed them on the table in front of Jacob.

“Can’t you tell? I spilled it on purpose.”

“Mrs. Thornton crawled all the way in the hospital, had a pretty bad abdominal infection, five fingers crushed, and her shoulder blade broke three times… What do you call this?”

“If I hadn’t been worried you guys would kill Mrs. Thornton, I would’ve left a few days ago!”

Jacob remembered the sleazy look the man gave me at the underground auction.

For a moment, he just felt like I was having an affair with the family doctor.

He couldn’t help but get furious, slammed the table, and shouted,

“What’s your relationship with Isabelle? Did she seduce you, or did you seduce her?” The family doctor smiled.

“Sure enough, a dirty-minded person only sees dirtiness in others.”

“Last year, my kid had surgery and needed 600,000. Mrs. Thornton heard about it, so she took the necklace from her wedding to a second-hand market and said saving the kid was more

important.”

“She told them to keep the necklace for her and said she’d buy it when she had money. But now it looked like she had money, but she would never go buy it in her whole life.”

“Mr. Thornton, you probably didn’t know, a lot of people living in this villa had been taken care of by Mrs. Thornton.”

“I might have been the first to leave, but I wouldn’t be the last.”

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“You take care of your wound yourself, I’m not helping anymore!”

The family doctor finished talking and actually left.

Outside the living room, even though it was still late at night, there was a line of people.

There were maids, gardeners, cooks, drivers… all here to quit. Their reasons were exactly the same, without any attempt to hide it.

“Doing that to Mrs. Thornton, your conscience was eaten by a dog!”

“Even animals knew how to care for their young. Some people, dressed all fancy, were worse

than animals.”

“With a boss like you, I wouldn’t even know if I got sold.”

In less than half an hour, the once crowded villa became empty.

Jacob suddenly had a feeling of “everyone turning against him.”

He felt really panicked and had no idea what he had missed. What was worse, when he went back to his bedroom, it felt really unfamiliar.

In a world without Isabelle, he felt like a part of his heart just caved in.

Moonlight came through the window and shone on the bed. He thought of countless crazy nights.

He thought of all that blood, those tears, and all those things he knew he shouldn’t do but did

anyway…

He thought of how I was hurting so much, but still let him finish.

He remembered the first time he saw me. It was the year he became CEO of the Thornton

Group.

He went back to his old school to give a speech, and I was the junior who was picked to give

him flowers on stage.

The sunlight fell on my hair, bright like all the summer flowers were blooming.

“Senior, my name is Isabelle.”

Countless images rushed in.

When I first married him, I was as happy as a little bird.

Later, I went from being ignored to being loved, and then to being loved day after day. But my face went from a healthy red to a sickly white.

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