A Second Chance at Forever novel (Eleanor and Bernard)

Chapter 23

Eleanor dashed home in the rain, stripped off her fancy dress, took off the diamond necklace around her neck, and tossed it in the box.

She’d send all this crap back to Josef tomorrow, his stuff sickened her, and she definitely wouldn’t keep it.

After closing the box, she went into the bathroom, turned on the tub faucet, and climbed in.

She scrubbed her face and back hard, so hard that her skin got red, then looked at herself in the mirror.

With makeup off, all that’s left was sickly paleness, no spirit, and lifeless eyes.

She couldn’t see the light or feel the warmth.

Like a dirty little bug, trampled all over.

Yet, she once had dignity….

“Dignity.”

Eleanor chuckled sarcastically. She had lost her dignity when she sold herself to Bernard.

She dried her hair, lay in bed, and fell asleep exhausted.

The rain had

My her

Eleanor slept straight

worked all night, slept from morning to afternoon. After making meals, Eleanor still hadn’t woken

With no response, she realized something was wrong.

When she saw her

was

hot…

and said, “Eleanor, you have a high fever. Get up,

kicked in when hearing the word ‘hospital‘. “No hospital…”

we have

Eleanor refuse, picked her up, and raced to the

emergency treatment, she was on an

and breathing machine.

congenital heart condition which Hailey

fever, oxygen shortage

Eleanor couldn’t take it, so she asked the doctor to use a breathing

Eleanor’s fever finally began to subside.

time off from work, and sat

adopted by the orphanage at around one year old. They were each other’s closest people after the head of the

hand, touching Eleanor’s pale face and sighed with a

who drained her youth and left

a

face filled with pain as he tried to speak, but

“What did you say?”

boy stopped talking, staring