A Second Chance at Forever novel (Eleanor and Bernard)

Chapter 20

The check was kinda hard, so it hurt when it scraped against her face.

She stood still for a few seconds, then bent down silently to pick up the check.

When she saw the amount on it, the bitterness in her mouth deepened.

Five years for five billion. Well worth it.

Five years ago, she really needed the money.

But now, she didn’t.

Eleanor calmly placed the check back on

the car.

“Mr. Laurence, you are really loaded. But if I take your money, I can’t marry into the Caporal family with a clear conscience.”

What she meant was, compared to Ms. Caporal’s position, this five billion was peanuts.

Taking his money, on the other hand, would impact her chances of marrying into wealth.

It wasn’t until this moment that Bernard understood the reason she didn’t want a cent from him she had plans to marry into high

society.

All the doubts in his heart disappeared. When he looked at her again, he saw a stranger, emotionless.

“Eleanor, from now on, never appear before me again.”

Eleanor just shrugged and chuckled, “Don’t worry, I won’t.”

She never had the chance to appear before him again because there was no future for her.

Her deep love for him would also be buried in the grave with time, no one would ever know…

parked the car at

to go inside the villa to look for Bernard when a Koenigsegg pulled

man stepped out

was tall and well–proportioned, his

accompanied by a potent oppressive force that deterred people from

a Bernard, would feel a bit

his mood, Cedric approached

“Bernard, you’re back?”

had been since he had left Midnight Bar

though,

strode past him into

in the hallway, saw him

handed it to the maid, and walked to the

high–end wine glasses, poured some decanted red wine into them, and turned to give one

“What’s up?”

so there must be something he wanted to say if he was

Cedric eyed him and saw his face wasn’t as bad as before, so

Ms. Shultz offend

had seen the usually gentlemanly Bernard douse a

glance, “Don’t ask what you

wasn’t angry when scolded. Instead, he smiled,

a mistress,

been for his unusual behavior tonight, Cedric might never have known who that

looked at him with deep, cold

eyes,

“What do you

want to say?”

saw

Eleanor so

planned to probe a little more, but

away his gentle smile, Cedric asked seriously:

When he