Rebirth: She Cuts Ties and Takes Revenge (Noelle Kain) novel Chapter 540

Chapter 540 Feel Anything?

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A grimy fisher girl, a fool in a loud floral shirt, a fisherman in a straw rain cape, and Sidney, shrinking at the very back with his legs still shaking.

Elsa froze for a second, her gaze sweeping across the group before stopping on Noelle.

“Who’s this?”

“A doctor,” Zane Covington said. “She’s here to treat your legs.”

Elsa’s expression changed.

She looked at Noelle, then back at Zane. Her mouth opened slightly before she suddenly burst out laughing.

“Her? Treat my legs?” She laughed so hard her eyes watered. “Zane, stop messing with me. How old is this girl, twenty? Twenty- one? Every famous doctor on this island’s already treated me, and none of them could fix it. Where did you even find this little girl?”

“She’s not from the island,” Zane said.

Elsa’s smile stiffened for a moment.

She stared at Noelle again, her expression shifting from amusement to scrutiny, then from scrutiny to wariness.

Lowering her voice, she said, “Zane, you know outsiders-”

“Mom.” Zane cut her off gently, but his tone was serious. “Are you really willing to spend the rest of your life lying in bed?”

Elsa turned her face away without answering.

Zane took hold of her hand. “Mom, listen to me.”

“Everyone says outsiders are bad people.” Zane let out a bitter little laugh. “But what about the people on this island? How did your legs end up like this? Ten years ago, the Covingtons turned on themselves, and someone poisoned your drink. It wasn’t an outsider. It was the cousin you watched grow up.”

Elsa’s face went pale for a split second.

She closed her eyes, unwilling to revisit it.

“That’s why, Mom.” Zane’s voice turned hoarse. “Outsiders aren’t always bad people, and islanders aren’t always good people either. I don’t care where she came from. I don’t care whether she’s registered in the system. I only care about one thing–whether she can make you better.”

Listening to him, the walls around Elsa’s heart finally began to crack.

She gripped Zane’s hand tightly, her fingers ice-cold.

“Mom, I can’t accept this.” Zane’s voice dropped even lower, almost like he was talking to himself “It’s been ten years. Every day, watch you lying in bed. I watch you stay awake from the pain. I watch you struggle just to turn over. I can’t accept it.

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He turned toward Noelle, something deep and long-buried in his eyes. “She’s different. One look and she knew I had an old injury

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in my leg. She even knew my stomach and spleen were weak. The island doctors have examined me for years, and not one of them

noticed.”

Elsa

gaze.

e the bed in a dusty headscarf and rough cloth clothes, her face smeared with ash. She looked no different from girl.

ere different.

too steady, like still water untouched by wind or rain.

lips moved slightly, like she wanted to say something, but the words never came out.

pelle stepped forward and stopped at the bedside. “Mrs. Covington, give me your hand.”

Elsa hesitated, then glanced at Zane again. In

Forget it.

I’ll treat this as one more chance

With a quiet sigh, she finally

Noelle rested two

candle flames

couldn’t refuse her son.

closed her eyes to check her pulse. The room fell silent except for the crackling of

A mome

ath the blanket. They were so thin that they barely had any shape left, as though there was

eventually nodded.

blanket.

kin and bone, the muscles wasted away badly. Below the knees, there was barely anything left but bone, and her ale that it looked bloodless.

ned his head away, unable to bear the sight.

erself looked calm, only saying lightly, “It’s looked like this for ten years.”

elle said nothing. She presse

farther down to her calves.

ry time she pres

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“And here?”

Elsa shook her head again and again. The hope on her face slowly faded into disappointment, and disappointment eventually

turned into numbness

She was used to it by now.

After ten years, she had grown used to feeling nothing

Without changing expression, Noelle pulled out a needle from her sleeve.

The needle was long and impossibly thin, gleaming coldly under the candlelight. The moment Elsa saw it, her face paled slightly. and her fingers clenched the blanket tighter.

Over the years, she had been stuck with too many needles. Just seeing one made her body instinctively afraid.

“Don’t be scared,” Noelle said softly.

She pinched the needle between her fingers, found the pressure point, and drove it down in one clean motion.

The needle pierced the spot an inch below Elsa’s knee so quickly that she barely had time to react.

Then Noelle gently twisted the end of the needle once, twice, three times…

“Ah!”

Elsa’s eyes flew wide open, and her whole body jerked.

The leg that had been numb for ten years suddenly felt like it had been struck by electricity. A sharp pain shot from her knee all the way to her toes, like a frozen string untouched for a decade suddenly being plucked back to life.

“It hurts!” she cried out, her voice trembling. “My leg… it hurts!”