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.

him would also be buried in the grave with time, no

the assistant parked the car at the entrance, and Cedric quickly got

just about to go inside the villa to look for Bernard when a Koenigsegg

man stepped out

well–proportioned, his body

accompanied by a potent

would feel a bit jittery,

his mood, Cedric

“Bernard, you’re back?”

where he had been since he had left Midnight

Bernard’s unhappy face, though, he didn’t

strode past him into the villa.

waiting in the hallway, saw him coming

handed it to the maid, and walked to

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

“What’s up?”

seldom came to his private villa, so there must be something he wanted to say if he was

him and saw his face wasn’t as bad as before, so

Ms. Shultz offend you

had seen the usually gentlemanly Bernard douse a woman

glance, “Don’t ask

Instead, he smiled, “Is she your

his cousin had a mistress, but he’d never

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

looked at him with deep, cold

eyes,

“What do you

want to say?”

saw

targeting Eleanor

originally planned to probe