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.

chest, feeling his heartbeat, her tears

such a fool…”

to do anything. Even if it meant giving up his life,

love was so pure that Eleanor felt overwhelmed

as well, yet this fool didn’t

Eleanor lifted her tear-filled eyes, looking at him through a mist.

hurts me to see you like this, please put me

expressed her concern for him, which

once said, there’s no shame in

held the woman in his arms tighter

bewildered Eleanor, and smiled again.

I need your concern, so-”

Not letting go.

Never letting go.

protested, “There’s a baby on the

an extra one, your husband

the distance

out of the safe room, watching their retreating figures without trying

didn’t hope for Eleanor’s forgiveness, only watching quietly, as if through them he

the time, had also been heartbroken to see him wounded. She must have

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

that she had fallen in love with him and found

aged eyes clouded with tears at the memory of

the figures before him blurred, he

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