A Second Chance at Forever

Chapter 129

7 don’t quite know how you feel about Ms. Shultz…”

With concern about her potential analytical mistake, Liana summoned the courage to ask.

If Bernard doesn’t care about Eleanor, then Liana’s keeping the lie about her illness is understandable. But if Bernard genuinely cares about Eleanor, then he will likely blame Liana when he discovers the truth. Liana hoped to get a clear answer from Bernard, so it could help her decide whether to tell him the truth. While Liana was racking her brain, Bernard put down his phone and raised his glass for a sip of wine. His demeanor suggested to Liana that he might not care about Eleanor as much as she thought.

“To me, she’s just someone to satisfy my physical needs.”

Bernard’s answer hinted to Liana that his concern went no further than that.

So, Liana finally understood how Bernard thought of Eleanor.

She’d assumed, because of how he rushed to take Eleanor to the hospital and then brought her back home for care, that he liked her to some extent.

Turns out it was just a matter of meeting his physical need.

probably why he hadn’t switched a sex partner in

that Eleanor was the woman by

believed that Bernard’s reluctance to change partners in all this time

view relationships differently. Some guys might care more about fulfilling their physical needs, rather than actually

especially emphasized in Bernard, a man with severe obsessions. Once he found a woman who he could accept, he

the door half opened, sounds from the conversation outside reached Eleanor’s ears and made

her in the face as she

had even been moved by his occasional kind gestures

for

five years, she’d been restraining her feelings for him. That way, when he eventually discarded her, she wouldn’t be utterly pathetic. Eleanor raised

himself for a while, working until the butler, Bryson, brought

work aside, looked up at Bryson and said, “Give it to me.”

then realized that Mr. Laurence wanted to serve

the tray over, cautioning, “Mr. Laurence, be

and carried the