A Second Chance at Forever

Chapter 298

After forcing herself to calm down, Eleanor whipped out her phone and rang up the cops. But the police were slow as molasses in winter, and with the car engine dead, it was hot as hell inside.

Before long, the suffocating heat made her breathe like a fish out of water.

Seeing no sign of the cops, Eleanor hit up Hailey right away. But Hailey was rushing off to deal with some drama at the nightclub, leaving her phone in the car, so she missed the call.

After a few tries and no answer, Eleanor gave up dialing.

She lifted her red–rimmed eyes to the tightly shut mansion gate, not a soul in sight to bail her out.

The lack of air and the suffocating feeling made her blood boil.

She hoisted her phone and smashed it against the car window, again and again, until the screen was shattered, but she didn’t let up.

Never before had she been this pissed off, her anger fueling her as she gritted her teeth and kept smashing.

of the

kaput but

the window, and just dropped her

sat there, feeling the air in the cramped space slowly disappearing

rolled down the passenger window, and bent over to look at

twice before breaking curfew

outside was a lifeline for

against the window, gulping the fresh air, and after she had caught her breath, she lifted her reddened eyes, and shot Ethan a

a starry sky,

him with the same eyes when she was hurt, but she never wanted to

instinctively averted his gaze, straightened up. He opened the car

heart, Eleanor kept a poker face and got out

but she turned on her heel and

and grab her arm, but she shook him off, shot him another

dumbstruck, watching her tiny figure recede into the distance, a furrow appearing between his brows.