A Second Chance at Forever

Chapter 1477

Garrett’s gaze lingered on Eleanor’s eyes, reflections of his own face staring back at him. He was spellbound, but painfully aware that she was no longer his. Suppressing the stirrings of his heart, he managed a strained whisper, “No, it’s not.”

If it wasn’t his child, then it had to be Bernard’s-a name foreign to her. Eleanor struggled with the thought, “Didn’t we promise to be together forever? How did we drift apart?”

Hailey had called Bernard her husband, and the doctors referred to Mr. Laurence in the same way. But in her heart, she had always longed for Garrett. How had it come to pass that she ended up with someone else?

Garrett’s fingers, held tight by Eleanor, slowly curled inward. After an internal battle, he gently eased her grip away. “It’s because I stopped loving you…”

Despite her amnesia and the vague awareness that much had happened during the time she was sleeping, Eleanor’s heart broke at his words. “Garrett, you promised to love me forever. I can’t believe that excuse.”

I will always love you, but you won’t.

heavy in the air as he comforted her, “You met someone who loves

“So I fell for someone else, and that’s why

a tall figure staggered into the room, propped up by Aidyn

kneeling in prayer, pleading with the heavens, struggled to his

she had woken up. As Bernard saw her conscious for the first time in months, the tension that had gripped him dissipated, and hope rekindled in his weary

the support of Aidyn and Scott, he stood firm against the door frame, ignoring the pain in

Eleanor’s cheek, and upon feeling her warmth, a relieved smile

down to embrace and kiss her. But before his lips could meet her forehead, she pushed him away in

don’t

bed as if he might collapse. “You… don’t remember me?”

alienation. She couldn’t fathom why she