A Second Chance at Forever novel (Eleanor and Bernard)

Chapter 1215

Hailey stepped out of the elevator and just as she rounded the comer through the lobby, she saw Hertha, slowing her stride.

Upon seeing her, Hertha removed her sunglasses and approached Hailey again.

“Ms. Vulpe, there are some truths you should know about. Let’s find a place where I can fill you in,” she said.

Faced with Hertha’s round two of truth-telling, Hailey found her untrustworthy.

“I don’t have the time, and I’m not interested in your so-called truth.”

Attempting to sidestep Hertha, she made to leave, but Hertha stopped her in her tracks.

“Hailey, if you’re hell-bent on marrying Cedric without a second thought, then be my guest,” she said, pulling out a voice recorder. “But you should know the truth.”

She thrust the recorder into Hailey’s hand.

“This is proof of what I was forced to explain after Latonia threatened me.”

The cold recorder in her hand sent a chill up her spine.

“So you’re saying your previous explanation was coerced by his mother?”

“Yes,” Hertha answered, expressionless, nodding her head. “If I hadn’t complied, I would have been attacked and my parents would have been hurt.”

To prove her point, Hertha lifted her shirt, grabbed Hailey’s hand, and placed it on her own ribs.

“Feel for yourself, several of my ribs are broken, and…”

ring finger

was permanently fractured.”

pulled back her high-collared shirt to reveal a patch of bruised skin on her neck for Hailey to see.

they were

defiance, her lips curled in a mocking smile.

son, and she went all out against me. She did all this to help her son win you back… Hailey, in this competition, you won, I lost…”

her hand back from Hertha’s

don’t believe you.”

but her

it a listen,” Hertha said, her eyes full of sympathy for Hailey.

a few

faked. How do I know you’re not just

is fake, confront Latonia.

Hertha’s determination and solemn vows, Hailey’s mind was full with

smirked internally, but outwardly she pushed the recorder back into Hailey’s

came to see me because I did have sex with Cedric that day. I anticipated they would come after me, so I thought I’d better cover my back. Little did I know it would

had been intimate, Hailey’s heart raced,

recorder, turned on her heel, and quickly exited the hospital ward.

on a

Latonia’s orders, Hertha’s screams for mercy, the rough movements of

sounds poured from the recorder, chilling Hailey to

the so-called truth, the so-called reality, were all just a mother’s love for her son.

And Cedric…

he didn’t do it, so he kidnapped me to get the truth from me. But what I said was the truth, he just doesn’t believe

a nonchalant attitude and sat down next to her.