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.

Yates finally pressed the

first, then I’ll release

the indifference in Bernard’s eyes.

Do you

and get her.”

the location of the escape room.

of the biozone corridor, behind the square white wall, you’ll find the escape room. The console code is 794203. Come alone.”

the last resort of a defeated man, and Yates exemplified this to

simultaneously shaking their heads at Bernard, signaling him not to

48 corpses lying in glass coffins, towards the

it again, you’re in no position to make

cold as winter frost, shone with an unearthly glow, hinting at an obscure darkness and chilling

better hand over my wife personally, or you’ll get no

that Bernard had the upper

own right, was loath to

to love Eleanor, yet you’re unwilling to come for her yourself. How can

seemed to suggest that if Bernard didn’t

claiming to be her grandfather/why won’t you deliver her yourself?”

negotiation had turned into a contest of who could be

would always win such a

simply broadcasted the surveillance footage of Eleanor to the biozone.

his mind the

alone on the bed, fragile as a leaf despite her pregnancy, her

and blind to the world around her, she epitomized