A Second Chance at Forever novel (Eleanor and Bernard)

Chapter 882

With swift strides, Bemard hastened back to his study, retrieving his phone and dialing a number.

Beck, already tucked in bed, jolted awake at the sound of the ringing phone. Startled to see Bernard’s name on the caller ID, she was taken aback. Bemard seldom reached out to her voluntarily. What could he possibly want at this hour?

She reached out with her aged fingers and answered the call, her voice filled with curiosity, “Hello, Bernard.”

Without wasting a moment on pleasantries, Bernard’s voice turned icy as he spoke, will return 10% of the Laurence Group shares to you and offer an additional 5% in stock options for your son. However, you must keep that secret hidden forever and cease instigating trouble for my wife within the Laurence family Failure to comply will result in profound regret for both you and your son!”

The news of Bernard returning her shares and providing her son with more options brought a faint smile to her lips. However, before Beckcould even fully embrace the happiness, his threatening words left her paralyzed with fear “You…”

Bemard cut her off, “You have five seconds to think about it.”

This was clearly coercion!

She cursed him, ‘Don’t you dare!“, but when the countdown was over, she nodded, “Alright, I agree.”

Her husband was long gone, the resentment from all those years was not as deep anymore. Trading the secret for shares and securing her son’s future, and even her grandkids‘ comfortable lives, was a good deal.

naturally agreed. As for the other members of the Laurence family she had incited, what did it have to do with her?

shares back, she would pin everything on Blake and let him deal

to be so sharp, to have figured out so quickly that she was the instigator. He was truly a man

daughter, I would like her to get an additional 5% in stock options, in exchange for another secret,

a trivial matter you’re using to bargain with me, you know what

and brother.

then agreed, “Go ahead”

detail, “Your father didn’t die from self–immolation, and your brother died from a medication error. That’s all I know. And I believe with your resources, you can find out the truth.”

stared at the now dark screen, lost in

had killed his biological mother, but had kept him by her side to torment him to get back at his

to set himself on fire.

he thought about it, he couldn’t believe that Donna would try to save his father. At most,

was Donna connected to his

him that she was the only one who knew the truth about his brother’s

identity, his relationship with Eleanor, the death of his father and brother, all these

and rubbed them hard, but the pain wouldn’t go