A Second Chance at Forever

Chapter 1421

Yates arched a skeptical brow, seemingly caught off guard by Bernard’s offer.

Was it sheer desperation to save Eleanor, or did he have an ulterior motive?

Yates didn’t trust Bernard all that much, yet he was dying to know who the founder of the Siren Organization really was. His eyes, seasoned by years of life’s trials, spun with the complexity of human nature.

“If you’re playing me, you’ll never see Eleanor again.” The cunning and shrewd always overthink, resorting to threats.

That was what made Yates detestable, and Bernard found it utterly contemptible.

“What right do you have to threaten me now?”

Bernard’s voice, deep and clear, flowed through the intercom into Yates’ ears.

“I’m only negotiating because of my wife.”

The unspoken message was clear: if Eleanor wasn’t in Yates’ clutches, would Bernard even bother with negotiations?

He would have stormed the biozone like he had other territories, capturing Yates without a second thought, not patiently hashing

out terms.

Now, a thoroughly defeated Yates truly had no ground to stand on. He couldn’t possibly harm Eleanor, could he?

After all, how could Yates harm Eleanor, the granddaughter he had finally-found?

But Yates suspected Bernard’s offer was a ruse.

pressed the intercom button

me who it is first, then I’ll

mocking smirk tinged the indifference in

information without releasing her? Do you

come and get her.”

the location of the

you’ll find the escape

of a defeated man, and Yates exemplified

this development, almost simultaneously shaking their heads at Bernard, signaling him not to

them, his gaze drifting past the 48 corpses lying in glass

you’re in no

frost, shone with an unearthly glow, hinting at

over my wife personally, or you’ll get no information, and your

knew full well that Bernard had the upper hand, whether in setting terms or making demands.

camel in his own right, was loath to be dictated to by a younger man

for her yourself.

to suggest that if Bernard didn’t personally retrieve Eleanor, his love was

claiming to be her grandfather/why won’t you

negotiation had turned into a contest of who could be more heartless.

always win such a contest.

Yates, unable to argue further, simply broadcasted the surveillance footage of

who had been ready to outlast Yates changed his mind the instant he saw

as a leaf despite her pregnancy,

the world around her,