A Second Chance at Forever novel (Eleanor and Bernard)

Chapter 886

After warning her, Bernard didn’t waste time beating around the bush with Donna. He cut to the chase I’m here for two things. If you play it straight with me, I won’t interfere with your brother’s plea for a reduced sentence. But if you play coy, III slap more charges on him, maybe enough to get him the death penalty.”

Donna’s brother had tried to drown him in a swimming pool when he was five, and Bernard was not about to let bygones be bygones. Now he could use her brother as leverage to squeeze the truth out of Donna, which was a fair deal in his books

Donna didn’t have much of a soft spot, but her little brother, who had always been at her beck and call was her Achilles heel. So she took the bait: “What do you want to know?”

Bernard asked coldly. “First off, did you start the fire that killed my father?”

Hearing that, Donna caught on quick: “So, you’ve figured out who your birth mother is?”

surprised look, then turned

him so harshly, she wasn’t his birth mother after

visit

if Donna wasn’t

any beans about his mother to Eleanor; he just demanded, “Answer

and said, “Since you’ve figured it out, why don’t you tell me, was it right or wrong for your father to cheat on your mother after

aback again. If his father had cheated on his mother, then Bernard

knew he couldn’t dodge the bullet. But

was it?

growing up and everything he cared about being destroyed, hadn’t he paid his dues already? Then who would stand up for him? Seeing Bernard’s silence, Donna knew he was at a loss for words, and that was enough for her: “Your father cheated

new perspective on her “So you wanted to burn him alive because he