A Second Chance at Forever

Chapter 1413

Bernard stood defiantly in the harsh glare of the sun, his complexion pale. His lips curled in a half-smile, but it was devoid of warmth.

“I never wanted my wife to live in fear because of me,” he said, his voice laced with a mixture of resolve and sadness. “All I ever wanted was to spend the rest of my days with her in peace. Is that so wrong?”

His tenure with the Siren Organization meant he was perpetually walking on a knife’s edge. One slip, one hint of his true identity, and it wouldn’t just be him facing dire consequences-it would be Eleanor, their home, their entire lives, turned to dust.

“You’re not in the wrong,” came the reply.

“Then who is?” Bernard challenged, raising an eyebrow at Xavier.

“I’m not in the wrong, so it must be Caleb, right?”

Xavier shot him a glance but said nothing.

Bernard slowly straightened up, resting his hands on his knees, his gaze fixed coldly on Xavier.

“Do you have any idea how many lives your selfishness has cost?” Bernard’s finger tapped insistently on the table between them, where the Siren Organization’s roster lay. “They were turned into bioengineered soldiers for your vendetta! And Caleb, who grew up with me, died in Area Opaca, never to rest in peace! And Evan, your own adopted son-if I hadn’t pushed him out of harm’s way, he would’ve died there too!”

As Bernard thought of the fallen, his eyes turned a deep, bloody red, and his fists clenched so tightly that his veins stood out like cords.

“Xavier, Evan was your boy, and you were willing to sacrifice him. What kind of heart do you have?!”

even in the face of infuriating situations. But now, Bernard was yelling at him, hysterical with grief for Caleb, Evan,

was Victor, so there wasn’t much of a bond,” Xavier said, as if that

had schemed to seize was rightfully Evan’s all along.

whole life honoring an enemy as his father,” Bernard muttered, making

doesn’t matter whose son one is, as long

were seeing him for the first time, his eyes filled

and you’re not

tell you, and you found out

looking directly at Bernard. “Now that we’ve finished with those trifles, let’s discuss the matter at hand.”

the lives entangled, were nothing but

what, to avenge Caleb and the others,” Xavier began. “I have only one condition: help me take out

a bitter smile as he spoke, “You

gaze impassively as he

streets-that’s a life debt. Without my guidance, you

looked apologetically

the truth, more people from Siren Organization will die, including you.” The glimmer of a

That should settle your debts. As for your private vendetta with Yates, that’s none of my concern. Settle it

Bernard gestured towards the

be tied up and delivered to Yates right now,

the outright rejection. But he couldn’t forget Bernard’s wife, the one who