A Second Chance at Forever

Chapter 20

The check was kinda hard, so it hurt when it scraped against her face.

She stood still for a few seconds, then bent down silently to pick up the check.

When she saw the amount on it, the bitterness in her mouth deepened.

Five years for five billion. Well worth it.

Five years ago, she really needed the money.

But now, she didn’t.

Eleanor calmly placed the check back on

the car.

“Mr. Laurence, you are really loaded. But if I take your money, I can’t marry into the Caporal family with a clear conscience.”

What she meant was, compared to Ms. Caporal’s position, this five billion was peanuts.

Taking his money, on the other hand, would impact her chances of marrying into wealth.

It wasn’t until this moment that Bernard understood the reason she didn’t want a cent from him she had plans to marry into high

society.

All the doubts in his heart disappeared. When he looked at her again, he saw a stranger, emotionless.

“Eleanor, from now on, never appear before me again.”

Eleanor just shrugged and chuckled, “Don’t worry, I won’t.”

She never had the chance to appear before him again because there was no future for her.

in the grave with

Bernard’s private estate, the assistant parked the car at the entrance, and Cedric

inside the villa to look for Bernard when a Koenigsegg pulled into

tall man stepped out

and well–proportioned, his

superiority, accompanied by a potent oppressive force that deterred people from

feel a bit jittery, let alone his

his mood, Cedric approached

“Bernard, you’re back?”

actually wanted to ask Bernard where he had been since he had left Midnight Bar before him

Bernard’s unhappy face, though,

him and strode past him into

in the hallway, saw him coming and quickly

handed it to the maid, and walked

picked up two high–end wine glasses, poured some decanted red wine into them, and

“What’s up?”

to his private villa, so there must be something he wanted to

wasn’t as bad as before, so he

Ms. Shultz offend you

Cedric had seen the usually gentlemanly Bernard douse a woman with

shot him a cold glance, “Don’t ask what

angry when scolded. Instead, he smiled, “Is she your

a mistress, but

unusual behavior tonight, Cedric might never have known who that woman

at him with deep,

eyes,

“What do you

want to say?”

saw

Eleanor

had originally planned to probe a little more,