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.”

those years was not as deep anymore. Trading the secret for shares and securing her

of the Laurence family she had incited, what

they asked her why she got her shares back, she would

just didn’t expect Bernard to be so sharp, to have figured out so quickly that she was the instigator. He was truly a

task, might as well try for more, “Bemard, I have another daughter, I would like her to get an additional 5% in

“If it’s a trivial matter you’re using to bargain with me, you know what I’m capable

threat, “It’s about your father and brother. I don’t think

then agreed, “Go

brother died from a medication error. That’s all I

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

had kept him by her side to

to set himself on fire. Despite the danger, Donna had tried to save him.

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

Donna connected to his father’s

was the only one who knew the truth about his brother’s death.