A Second Chance at Forever novel (Eleanor and Bernard)

Chapter 27

In the deep slumber, the cellphone suddenly kept buzzing non–stop.

She tiredly opened her eyes, forced herself to wake up and picked up the phone.

“Baby.”

Josef’s voice came from the other side, “You said you had a high fever last night. How are you now?”

Eleanor’s spirits lifted slightly at the sound of his voice.

She found Josef bizarre. He always just wanted to possess her, but now he suddenly cared about her health?

Text messages and phone calls – could it be that he knew she was near death and wanted to let her off the hook?

Eleanor’s mind raced, but she acted nonchalant and replied, “I’m better now.”

“Good to know.”

Josef said perfunctorily, then eagerly asked, “Why did you call me? Did that thing work out?”

care about her health;

with one hand, coldly saying, “I

that day to escape was to blackmail Bernard with a

confident, but only she knew that it

didn’t have the video, wouldn’t talk to Bernard, and definitely wouldn’t

planned all along to use

Hailey got married safely, she’d go find Josef

for Hailey’s peace for

impatient, “The bidding is on the 10th of next month; when is he going to consider it?”

wedding was on the 9th of

originally planned to wait for Hailey to get married and then go find Josef to take him down.

the bidding was on the 10th, and time was so tight that Josef

gritted her teeth and said, “On the 9th of next month, he’ll give me a definite

“Geez!”

cursed a few times, “Give me the video,

panicked for a moment, her palms sweating with anxiety. Fortunately, she reacted quickly,

him this video, it will only enrage him even more. At that time,

and thought