A Second Chance at Forever

Chapter 882

With swift strides, Bemard hastened back to his study, retrieving his phone and dialing a number.

Beck, already tucked in bed, jolted awake at the sound of the ringing phone. Startled to see Bernard’s name on the caller ID, she was taken aback. Bemard seldom reached out to her voluntarily. What could he possibly want at this hour?

She reached out with her aged fingers and answered the call, her voice filled with curiosity, “Hello, Bernard.”

Without wasting a moment on pleasantries, Bernard’s voice turned icy as he spoke, will return 10% of the Laurence Group shares to you and offer an additional 5% in stock options for your son. However, you must keep that secret hidden forever and cease instigating trouble for my wife within the Laurence family Failure to comply will result in profound regret for both you and your son!”

The news of Bernard returning her shares and providing her son with more options brought a faint smile to her lips. However, before Beckcould even fully embrace the happiness, his threatening words left her paralyzed with fear “You…”

Bemard cut her off, “You have five seconds to think about it.”

This was clearly coercion!

She cursed him, ‘Don’t you dare!“, but when the countdown was over, she nodded, “Alright, I agree.”

from all those years was not as deep anymore. Trading the secret for shares and securing her son’s future, and even her

agreed. As for the other members of the Laurence family she had incited, what did it have to

she would pin everything on Blake and let him deal

Bernard to be so sharp, to have figured out so quickly that

I have another daughter, I would like her to get an additional 5% in stock options, in exchange

finger slowly dropped, “If it’s a trivial matter you’re using to bargain with me,

afraid of his threat, “It’s about your father and brother. I don’t

then agreed,

died from a medication error. That’s all I know. And I believe with your resources, you can find

saying this, she hung up. Bernard stared at the now dark screen, lost in

had killed his biological mother, but had kept him by her side to torment him

after learning of Tammie’s death, chose to set himself on fire. Despite the danger, Donna had tried

it, he couldn’t believe that Donna would try to save his father. At

began to wonder, was Donna connected to his father’s death? What about his brother’s death?

that Sophie had once told him that she was the only one who knew