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.

be buried in the grave with time,

estate, the assistant parked the car at

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

out of

tall and well–proportioned,

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

feel

Cedric approached

“Bernard, you’re back?”

been since he had left Midnight Bar before

face, though, he didn’t

past him into the

had already been waiting in the hallway, saw him coming and quickly

untied his tie, handed it to

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

“What’s up?”

villa, so there must be something he wanted to say if he was here

face wasn’t as bad as before, so he boldly spoke up.

offend you

was the first time Cedric had seen the usually gentlemanly Bernard douse

him a cold glance, “Don’t ask

Instead, he smiled,

a mistress, but he’d never

hadn’t been for his unusual behavior tonight, Cedric might never have known who that woman was.

at him with deep,

eyes,

“What do you

want to say?”

saw

Eleanor so

planned to probe a little more, but seeing