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

straight until the

from morning to afternoon. After making meals,

and called her twice. With no

the door open and went in. When she saw her flushed face on

was

hot…

and said, “Eleanor, you have a high fever. Get up, I’m going to take you

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

sick, we have to go!”

let Eleanor refuse, picked her up, and raced to the hospital.

emergency treatment, she was on an

and breathing machine.

condition which Hailey knew about.

she had a cold or fever, oxygen shortage

take it, so she

fever finally began to

breathed a sigh of relief, asked for time off from work,

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

pale face and sighed with

playboys who drained her

slept restlessly, seeing a

as he tried to speak, but Eleanor

him, “What

stopped talking, staring