Too Late, Mr. Cooper: Your Bride Ran with Your Baby novel Chapter 397

Lucas nodded, his tone certain. "Yes, the same one."

"The year Isabella's parents died in a medical dispute, her relatives swindled her out of her inheritance and kicked her out. The Rowe family abandoned her at an orphanage and never looked back."

"It was there that she met the Nightfall brothers, whose parents had also died in a car crash."

Lucas paused, his expression serious as he continued hesitantly, "Mr. Cooper, I spoke to the director of that orphanage. She said..."

"She said that because Isabella was pretty and wore nice clothes, it was obvious she came from a wealthy family. The other children were jealous and often bullied and isolated her."

"Only the Nightfall brothers would protect her. Isabella was incredibly grateful to them. Later, after your great-grandfather adopted her into the Cooper family, she begged him to get the Nightfall brothers out of the orphanage too, to be her bodyguards."

Of course, Linton's great-grandfather didn't agree to that.

But since the Nightfall brothers had protected the isolated and bullied Isabella, he wasn't going to abandon them, even if he didn't adopt them. He felt pity for the boys and their tragic circumstances.

He entrusted the matter to Damian Cooper, who was head of the family at the time.

Linton’s great-grandfather specifically instructed Damian to find a good family to adopt the two brothers, so they could have a normal education and upbringing.

Damian, however, wasn't so benevolent. He barely cared for his own son, let alone someone else's children.

But at the time, the old man still held significant power in the Cooper Group and hadn't fully retired. Damian couldn't afford to openly defy him.

So Damian followed the order and took the Nightfall brothers out of the orphanage.

Isabella’s soul had twisted the day her parents—dedicated doctors who had saved countless lives—died because of a violent medical dispute. Her heart had been warped ever since.

Probably the last bit of goodwill she had for anyone in this world was her gratitude toward the Nightfall brothers for protecting her in the orphanage.

The first thing she did after being taken in by the Cooper family was to ask her benefactor to get the brothers out of the orphanage and find them a normal family.

Right up until the moment she was imprisoned, with her plot to murder Matthew exposed, she naively believed that the Nightfall brothers owed their success to her.

In her mind, it was because she had asked the old Mr. Cooper to have them adopted that they were able to lead such prosperous lives as heads of an international corporation.

Because of this, she naturally assumed they were indebted to her and never once suspected them of any wrongdoing.