Our Love Story: Hard to Guard Against the Sudden Love Strike-Chapter 270 - 267: Out of My League

Sienna Thornton stood up straight and shook her head: "I’m fine. My right leg was previously fractured, so sometimes the muscles spasm a bit. If I’m not careful, I’ll twist my ankle."

Quentin Thorne helped her to the door, letting her lean against the wall. He then carefully examined her right leg and asked, "When did you fracture it?"

"Late October the year before last, it’s been a year and a half."

"A year and a half should be fully healed. If it still feels uncomfortable, you need to see a doctor again." Saying this, Quentin Thorne took out his phone, "I’ll send you a phone number, it’s the most renowned orthopedic doctor in Brimfield, a very good friend of mine. I’ll explain everything to him."

He noticed the ten-centimeter high heels on her feet and advised, "If your leg is uncomfortable, don’t wear such high heels anymore."

Sienna Thornton smiled: "Okay, I get it, thank you, Dean Thorne."

The two chatted by the roadside for a bit, then Simon Forrester came out and bid farewell to Quentin Thorne, signaling Sienna Thornton to get in the car.

On the way back, Sienna Thornton was lost in thought. Usually talkative with Simon Forrester, she was exceptionally quiet now.

Simon Forrester freed one hand to rub her shoulder and asked, "What are you thinking about?"

"I was thinking about what Dean Thorne said tonight." Sienna Thornton pouted, "Do you agree with what he said?"

Simon Forrester pondered for a moment and replied: "Because that person is you, so yes, I agree. He, like me, doesn’t want you to encounter any bad things."

His words were sincere, even if he hadn’t reconciled with Quentin Thorne tonight, he would have still said this.

"Dean Thorne is right. Being a pioneer is definitely tough and challenging. I don’t want you to be that tired. So in that regard, Dean Thorne and I have the same opinion."

"Why are you both so selfish?" Sienna Thornton’s voice was low, "If everyone thinks like you do, not letting their daughters or partners do such things, then in the future, your daughters or granddaughters will live in a world like now, where women have to give much more than men and still can’t achieve the same accomplishments."

"Other people can take on that role, I have no objection and even welcome it, but I don’t encourage you to do so. Have you forgotten that a law association’s investigation almost made you unable to establish yourself in the legal world?"

Sienna Thornton: "..."

She was speechless for a moment, then after a pause, in a fit of pique, said: "If I get targeted again this time and am really pushed out of the legal circle, then I’ll go home and do laundry, cook, and have kids for you!"

This left Simon Forrester speechless. After a while, he said: "That version of you wasn’t happy, wasn’t it? We both know it. I don’t want a wife who’s depressed all the time."

Sienna Thornton didn’t want to continue the conversation, so she turned away, pouting and showing him the back of her head.

-

Meanwhile, at the Thorne Family.

Quentin Thorne glanced at the first-floor living room out of habit before driving the car into the garage.

The first-floor living room was dark, with no light at all, and neither was the second floor. He checked his watch; it was just after nine in the evening, it was unlikely the house was empty.

He parked the car, got out, opened the door, and walked into the living room. Just as he was about to turn on the light, a cold voice echoed from the darkness: "Where were you?"

With a "snap," the lights flooded the living room, and Ian Grant’s stony face appeared simultaneously in front of Quentin Thorne.

Quentin Thorne looked at her, sighed, and turned to change his shoes at the entrance: "Didn’t I tell you I was having dinner with a student?"

He instinctively hid the fact that he was meeting with Sienna Thornton, fearing that the suspicious Ian Grant would discover Sienna Thornton’s identity, so he didn’t even want to mention Simon Forrester.

Ian Grant sneered: "A male student or a female student?"

Quentin Thorne had changed his slippers, looked towards the stairs, and asked: "Where’s Mina?"

Ian Grant snapped and rushed at him, stabbing his forehead with her finger, scathingly mocking, "You still remember you have a daughter? You have time to care for students and dine with them, so why can’t you spare some time for your one and only daughter?! Huh??"

She used Mina Thorne as an excuse, but she was actually accusing Quentin Thorne of not caring about her, and he understood that it had always been this way for decades. But how could he care for someone like Ian Grant?

There was no emotional foundation before marriage, and after marriage, Ian Grant monitored him as if she were watching a criminal, and it has been this way for over twenty years.

If not for meeting Sienna Thornton, he would rarely socialize outside of work hours. Yet, Ian Grant believed he had someone else outside, possibly an illegitimate child.

Quentin Thorne loathed women like Ian Grant.

Seeing him silent, Ian Grant started hitting him, crying and yelling: "You heartless man! I married down for you! Yet you treat me like this! Quentin Thorne, why don’t you just die!"

At first, Quentin Thorne gritted his teeth in endurance, but suddenly, he thought of Sienna Thornton and the suffering that Melinda Linton and her daughter endured because of the Grant family and Ian Grant. He didn’t want to endure it anymore!

He firmly grabbed Ian Grant’s crazily battering hands, glaring at her angrily, his voice deepened, "Married down? You mean I climbed up to you? My Thorne Family climbed up to your Grant Family? Don’t forget! It was your Grant Family who first approached my Thorne Family for marriage, and you, Ian Grant, insisting on marrying me, who already had a relationship! How is it that now it sounds like my Thorne Family is begging your Grant Family? If it weren’t for the shelter of your father and brother, what do you have? Do you have talent or virtue? You have neither! Or, did I, Quentin Thorne, take a penny from your Grant Family or rely on your Grant Family for my career? What I have today is all because of myself! How dare you say I climbed up to you?"

His words were sharp as knives, cutting Ian Grant’s heart to shreds. He not only accused her of knowingly forcing him to marry her with power, despite having a lover, but also mocked her lack of talent and virtue.

He had never spoken so harshly to Ian Grant before, and the unconfident Ian Grant couldn’t bear it, screaming wildly like she’d lost her mind. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Quentin Thorne looked at her coldly, leaving her with one final statement, "If you think I’m beneath you, we should get a divorce, and you wouldn’t have to wrong yourself anymore."

Saying this, he turned and went back to his study on the first floor. The study was also his bedroom. Yes, he and Ian Grant had slept in separate rooms for over twenty years.

If it weren’t for Mina Thorne, he would have divorced Ian Grant long ago.

-

Quentin Thorne locked the study door, carefully took a book from the bookshelf, sat at the desk, and took out the ID photo of Sienna Thornton that Simon Forrester gave him from the book.

Looking at the healthy and intelligent appearance of his eldest daughter in the photo, he sometimes wondered if he hadn’t married Ian Grant, hadn’t had Mina Thorne, whether he would now be living with Melinda Linton and Sienna Thornton and perhaps even have a second child.

Melinda Linton was gentle, soft-spoken, admired everything about him, and would never torment him like Ian Grant did, while Sienna was lively and outgoing, unlike the gloomy Mina Thorne, who wouldn’t speak to him for ten days at a time.

Such a life, even without his current status, would probably be much happier than his current one, right?

The reason he married Ian Grant back then was not just to protect his parent’s jobs from being threatened by the Grant family, but also because if he didn’t marry Ian Grant and have children with her, he would have been kept under house arrest indefinitely.

In retrospect, it’s all the same. His life was destined to be tied to Ian Grant, destined never to become a family with Melinda Linton and her daughter.

Thinking of this, aside from lamenting the unfairness of fate, he felt a deep sense of frustration.