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.

buried her face in his chest, feeling his heartbeat, her tears

such

to do anything. Even if it meant

that Eleanor felt

well, yet this fool didn’t mind.

this thought, Eleanor lifted her tear-filled eyes, looking

hurts me to see you like

him, which only deepened the smile on Bernard’s lips.

no shame in

wounded shoulder, held the woman

lowered his eyes, looking at the bewildered Eleanor, and smiled again. “I’m not letting

I need your concern, so-” go.”

Not letting go.

Never letting go.

a baby on the

with an extra one,

intimate exchange faded into the distance as they left.

watching their retreating figures without trying to

watching quietly, as if through them he

heartbroken to see him wounded. She

were discovered

fallen in love with him and

aged eyes clouded with tears at

him blurred, he spoke in a low,

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