A Second Chance at Forever

Chapter 23

Eleanor dashed home in the rain, stripped off her fancy dress, took off the diamond necklace around her neck, and tossed it in the box.

She’d send all this crap back to Josef tomorrow, his stuff sickened her, and she definitely wouldn’t keep it.

After closing the box, she went into the bathroom, turned on the tub faucet, and climbed in.

She scrubbed her face and back hard, so hard that her skin got red, then looked at herself in the mirror.

With makeup off, all that’s left was sickly paleness, no spirit, and lifeless eyes.

She couldn’t see the light or feel the warmth.

Like a dirty little bug, trampled all over.

Yet, she once had dignity….

“Dignity.”

Eleanor chuckled sarcastically. She had lost her dignity when she sold herself to Bernard.

She dried her hair, lay in bed, and fell asleep exhausted.

The rain had

My her

straight until the afternoon.

all night, slept from morning to afternoon. After making meals, Eleanor still

door and called her twice. With

and went in. When she saw her flushed face on the bed, she

was

hot…

said, “Eleanor, you have a high fever. Get up, I’m going to take you to the hospital.”

kicked in when hearing the word

very sick, we have to go!”

Eleanor refuse, picked her

treatment, she was on an

and breathing machine.

heart condition

had a cold or fever, oxygen

so she asked the doctor to use a breathing

Eleanor’s fever finally began

breathed a sigh of relief, asked for time off from work, and

at around one year old. They were each other’s closest people

hand, touching Eleanor’s pale face and sighed with a

had met two playboys who drained her youth

slept restlessly, seeing a young man

tried to speak,