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

him so harshly,

why Bernard had come to visit Donna in prison right after his

but if Donna wasn’t his mother, then who was?

beans about his mother to Eleanor; he just demanded, “Answer me, did you or

tell me, was it right or wrong for

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

but he knew he couldn’t dodge the bullet.

was it?

dues already? Then who would stand up for him? Seeing Bernard’s silence, Donna knew he

on her “So you wanted to burn him alive because he asked for a