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.”

not as deep anymore. Trading the secret for shares and securing her son’s future,

other members of the Laurence family she had incited, what did it have

shares back, she would pin everything on Blake and

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

benefits from Bernard was no easy task, might as well try for more, “Bemard, I have another daughter, I

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

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

frowned, then agreed,

into detail, “Your father didn’t die from self–immolation, and your brother died from a medication error. That’s all I know. And I

Bernard stared at the now dark screen,

kept him by her side to torment

set himself on fire. Despite the

that Donna would try to save his father. At most, she would have tried to save his brother. But she had never

Donna connected to his father’s death? What

that she was the only