A Second Chance at Forever

Chapter 1388

His eyes sparkled like distant stars, shrouded by a nebulous veil that obscured the profound depths within.

She couldn’t quite discern what Bernard was thinking, but his words were suffocating. Eleanor couldn’t bear to hear them. At the sound, a sourness tingled at the tip of her nose, and her eyes reddened, unable to hold back the tears.

“Why? Is it because of Sophie threatening you again?”

Just like the last time, using her life to threaten Bernard, leaving him no choice but to push her away. But this time was different.

“I will deal with Sophie as the leader of the Area Opaca, so you don’t have to worry about that.”

Her voice, resolute in its protection of him, was a warm embrace to Bernard’s ears, yet it also filled him with a deep sense of unworthiness.

“Eleanor, this time, Sophie hasn’t threatened me. It’s me… I want a divorce.”

Eleanor stood frozen, heart heavy and nose sour, both sensations pricking at her eyes until the tears fell like pearls slipping off a broken string, “Why?”

there were no threats against him. Why, then, did Bernard still

fingers lifted instinctively, trembling as they wiped her tears, “Eleanor, it’s hard being with me, isn’t it?”

here because of me.

if something was slicing through his throat, inch by painful inch.

“Let’s separate, okay?”

Eleanor looked at the man before her, barely able to believe that the word “separate” had come from his

to him. She left with

went back home, he begged her, claimed he would die without her. Eleanor etched those words into her heart, as deeply as she

deeply, Eleanor felt she would die without him too. Yet he’d

as if to impart strength, holding on tightly, “I’ve come through worse before. Whether it’s hard now doesn’t matter. What matters is that I can face any danger together with you.”

his eyelashes flutter down,

1-1, you and I were on opposing sides.”

hit Eleanor then, her heart seizing. She clutched his hand, frantic to

was Yates. He wouldn’t let me see you. I only used that condition to get into Area Opaca. I