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.”

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

her goal, she naturally agreed. As for the other members of the Laurence family she

her shares back, she would pin everything on Blake and let

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

well try for more, “Bemard, I have another daughter, I would like her to get an additional 5% in stock options, in exchange for another secret,

you’re using to bargain with me, you know what

of his threat, “It’s about your father and brother. I don’t think thats trivial matter, do you?”

then agreed, “Go ahead”

went 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 believe with your resources,

hung up. Bernard stared at the now dark screen,

kept him by her side

after learning of Tammie’s death, chose to set himself on fire.

to save his father. At most, she would have tried to save his brother. But she had

connected to his father’s death? What about

that she was the only one who knew the truth about his brother’s