Chapter 129

7 don’t quite know how you feel about Ms. Shultz…”

With concern about her potential analytical mistake, Liana summoned the courage to ask.

If Bernard doesn’t care about Eleanor, then Liana’s keeping the lie about her illness is understandable. But if Bernard genuinely cares about Eleanor, then he will likely blame Liana when he discovers the truth. Liana hoped to get a clear answer from Bernard, so it could help her decide whether to tell him the truth. While Liana was racking her brain, Bernard put down his phone and raised his glass for a sip of wine. His demeanor suggested to Liana that he might not care about Eleanor as much as she thought.

“To me, she’s just someone to satisfy my physical needs.”

Bernard’s answer hinted to Liana that his concern went no further than that.

So, Liana finally understood how Bernard thought of Eleanor.

She’d assumed, because of how he rushed to take Eleanor to the hospital and then brought her back home for care, that he liked her to some extent.

Turns out it was just a matter of meeting his physical need.

That’s probably why he hadn’t switched a sex partner in five years, she thought.

knew that Eleanor was the woman by Bernard’s side; she just

had believed that Bernard’s reluctance to change partners in all this time was because he genuinely

her–men and women could view relationships differently. Some guys might care more about fulfilling their physical needs, rather than actually

Bernard, a man with severe obsessions. Once he found a woman who he

conversation outside reached Eleanor’s ears and made her

as she became

was that she had even been moved by his occasional kind gestures in the past. She

had kept her emotions for

five years, she’d been restraining her feelings for him. That way, when he eventually discarded her, she wouldn’t be utterly pathetic. Eleanor raised her right hand and adjusted the drip speed on the IV bag, believing that a faster pace might

working until

up at Bryson

wanted to serve Eleanor the

tray over, cautioning, “Mr. Laurence,

nodded, stood, and carried the food to

closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.

he noticed Eleanor’s closed eyes but also saw that her eyelids were slightly quivering. He knew she was faking sleep. His usually cold eyes softened

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