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 until

night, slept from morning to afternoon. After making meals, Eleanor still

door and called her twice. With no response, she

When she saw her

was

hot…

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

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

we have to

let Eleanor refuse, picked her up, and raced

emergency treatment, she was on

and breathing machine.

heart condition

fever, oxygen shortage would become an

it, so she asked

finally began to

sigh of relief, asked for time off from work, and sat silently

year old. They

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

playboys who drained her youth and left her scarred

a high fever, Eleanor slept restlessly, seeing a young man

filled with pain as he tried to speak, but Eleanor couldn’t

approached him, “What did you

boy stopped talking, staring