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Detention center, John Thorne supported Ms. Thorne, waited for a long time, and finally saw a stumbling figure, under the leadership of the prison guards walked out. 

He could hardly believe that the stooped old man in front of him was his father. 

His hair was graying and thinner, and his face was a little bluish. 

Ms. Thorne burst into tears when she saw this. 

She wanted to pull Mr. Thorne’s hand through the glass, but she couldn’t reach it. 

John Thorne also choked up and picked up the phone, “Dad, are you OK? How can you be so thin? Did someone bully you?” 

Mr. Thorne held the phone and gently shook his head. 

Looking at his wife and son on the other side, he felt sour in his heart. 

In just over a month, their family was broken up. 

It all started when they did bad things to Nancy. 

The Mr. Thorne wept tears and regretted. 

‘It’s all my fault. It’s me. I hurt Nancy and I hurt you too.” 

Ms. Thorne and John Thorne both shed tears, filled with regret. 

If they had treated Nancy well from the very beginning, even if they had not found their own daughter, their life would not have been like this. 

The prison guard came up to prompt the visiting time, John Thorne held the phone, anxiously said: 

“Dad, you take care of yourself, I will find a way to save you out!” 

Mr. Thorne shook his head helplessly:“John, don’t worry about me, I have brought all this on myself.” 

“If you have the chance, apologize to Nancy instead of me, we should all apologize to her, we are sorry to her!” 

As Mr. Thorne was taken by the guard, Ms. Thorne cried until she was almost dead. Seeing that her face was getting worse and worse, John Thorne dared not delay any longer and took her to the hospital. 

When she woke up again, Ms. Thorne looked at him with tears in her eyes. 

“John, we must apologize to Nancy. We were wrong!” 

John Thorne shook her hands and nodded heavily. 

“Mom, let’s call Nancy again.” 

“We’ve done her a disservice, but we’ve lived together for ten years.” 

‘If she knew you were ill, it would soften her heart. If only she would help, everything would be 

all right!‘ 

Ms. Thorne’s eyes lit up with hope, but she was not sure.“Can we do it?” 

John Thorne held her hand and encouraged her, “Yes, mom, let’s try.” 

My old mobile phone has long been out of reach, and John Thorne passed through many people to find out my new number from my college 

roommate. 

The phone rang for a long time before someone answered. 

“hello?” The familiar voice came from the receiver, and Ms. Thorne’s nasal cavity was sour, and tears fell instantly. 

“Nancy…… Choking up, she began: “I’m mum, how are you doing?” 

I froze for a moment, restrained the politeness in the tone just now, and answered coldly:“My mother is the wife of the chairman of the Baichuan Group, Mrs. Thorne, please don’t make a mistake.” 

Ms. Thorne heard my cold voice, a position of pain in the heart, she held down the heart, 

trembling to open. 

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“Nancy, the past is our fault. We know it was wrong.” 

“Nancy, now the family is very messy, your father he had an accident, mother is also ill, the doctor said that mother’s time may not be long, for! have taken care of you for more than ten years, you come back to see mother, OK?” 

On the other side of the phone, was a long silence. 

John Thorne and Ms. Thorne looked at each other nervously, afraid that Nancy would hang up the phone the next second. 

After a long time, I said, “I will transfer a sum of money to your account, which is to settle the maintenance fees over the years” 

“Don’t forget, it was Mr. Thorne himself who said so. I have nothing to do with the Thome family 

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