A Second Chance at Forever

Chapter 1427

Chapter 1427

Cradled in his arms, Eleanor’s whole body trembled, yet as she caught the familiar, icy scent of him, her shaking subsided.

Slowly, she lifted her eyes to meet the chiseled jawline of the man looking down at her with his long lashes casting shadows on his cheeks.

In each other’s gaze, they saw a reflection of their own faces – one pale, the other resolute neither willing to look away.

“Eleanor, let’s go home.” Ignoring the gunshot wound in his shoulder, Bernard scooped up Eleanor in a bridal carry.

The effort caused blood to trickle from his wound onto Eleanor’s cheek, a startling crimson smear.

“Put me down!” Eleanor commanded.

–

He was injured and still carrying her was he out of his mind? Eleanor, worried he was in pain, struggled to be released, but Bernard leaned in, pressing a kiss to her forehead.

“Easy, don’t move.”

That familiar term of endearment, “easy,” once again brought tears to Eleanor’s eyes.

“It’ll hurt if you exert yourself.”

His lips were white from strain, yet he smiled faintly. “As long as you don’t squirm, it won’t hurt,” he said.

Moved by Bernard’s stubbornness, Eleanor wrapped her arms around his neck for a fleeting moment.

feeling his heartbeat, her tears

you’re such

if it meant giving

that Eleanor felt overwhelmed with

well, yet this fool didn’t

lifted her tear-filled eyes,

hurts me to see you like

expressed her concern for him, which only deepened the smile on Bernard’s

there’s no shame in

Bernard, leaning on his wounded shoulder, held the woman in

bewildered Eleanor,

I need your concern, so-”

Not letting go.

Never letting go.

“There’s a baby on the

an extra one,

intimate exchange faded into the distance

out of the safe room, watching their retreating

quietly, as if through them he saw

heartbroken to see him

fate played its cruel hand, and the seeds of his own making were discovered by Pauline, who then

had fallen in love

eyes clouded with tears at the

figures before him blurred, he spoke in

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