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.

hadn’t switched a sex partner in five years,

was the woman by Bernard’s side; she just hadn’t met her before.

had believed that Bernard’s reluctance to change partners in all this time was because he genuinely

Some guys might care

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

opened, sounds from the conversation

in the face as she became acutely aware of

absurd was that she had even been moved by his occasional kind gestures in the past. She felt

for

her, she wouldn’t be utterly pathetic. Eleanor raised her right

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

put his work aside, looked up at

Laurence wanted to serve

the tray over, cautioning, “Mr. Laurence, be careful not

stood, and carried the