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

Eleanor slept straight

morning to afternoon. After making meals, Eleanor still hadn’t woken

Eleanor’s door and called her twice. With

quickly pushed the door open and went in. When she saw her flushed face on the bed, she immediately touched Eleanor’s

was

hot…

covers, propped Eleanor up and said, “Eleanor, you have a high

when hearing the word ‘hospital‘.

very sick, we have

her up,

emergency treatment, she was on an o

and breathing machine.

heart condition which Hailey knew

fever, oxygen shortage

so she asked the doctor to

midnight, Eleanor’s fever finally began to

asked for time off

were adopted by the orphanage at around one year old. They were each other’s closest people after

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

two playboys who drained her

a high fever, Eleanor slept restlessly, seeing a

filled with pain as he tried to speak, but