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

and Eleanor slept straight until

night, slept from morning to afternoon. After making meals,

With no

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

was

hot…

Eleanor up and said, “Eleanor, you have a high fever. Get up, I’m going to

Eleanor’s instinct kicked in when hearing

very sick, we have to

her up,

treatment, she was

and breathing machine.

congenital heart condition which Hailey knew about.

fever, oxygen shortage would become

couldn’t take it, so she asked

finally

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

the orphanage at around one year old. They

touching Eleanor’s pale face and sighed with a

playboys who drained her youth and left her scarred all over.

a high fever, Eleanor slept restlessly, seeing a young man with bloody hands stretching towards her.

with pain as he tried to