A Second Chance at Forever novel (Eleanor and Bernard)

Chapter 1421

Yates arched a skeptical brow, seemingly caught off guard by Bernard’s offer.

Was it sheer desperation to save Eleanor, or did he have an ulterior motive?

Yates didn’t trust Bernard all that much, yet he was dying to know who the founder of the Siren Organization really was. His eyes, seasoned by years of life’s trials, spun with the complexity of human nature.

“If you’re playing me, you’ll never see Eleanor again.” The cunning and shrewd always overthink, resorting to threats.

That was what made Yates detestable, and Bernard found it utterly contemptible.

“What right do you have to threaten me now?”

Bernard’s voice, deep and clear, flowed through the intercom into Yates’ ears.

“I’m only negotiating because of my wife.”

The unspoken message was clear: if Eleanor wasn’t in Yates’ clutches, would Bernard even bother with negotiations?

He would have stormed the biozone like he had other territories, capturing Yates without a second thought, not patiently hashing

out terms.

Now, a thoroughly defeated Yates truly had no ground to stand on. He couldn’t possibly harm Eleanor, could he?

After all, how could Yates harm Eleanor, the granddaughter he had finally-found?

But Yates suspected Bernard’s offer was a ruse.

finally pressed the intercom

who it is first, then I’ll release

tinged the indifference in Bernard’s eyes.

without releasing her? Do you

come and

gave Bernard the location of the escape room.

square white wall, you’ll find the escape room. The console

actions are the last resort of a defeated

simultaneously shaking their heads at Bernard, signaling him

at them, his gaze drifting past the 48 corpses lying in glass coffins, towards the end of the

say it again, you’re in

as winter frost, shone with an unearthly glow, hinting at an obscure darkness and chilling

hand over my wife personally, or you’ll

Bernard had the upper hand, whether in setting terms or

own right, was loath to be dictated to by a younger man

to love Eleanor, yet you’re unwilling to come for her yourself. How can

righteousness seemed to suggest that if Bernard didn’t personally retrieve Eleanor, his love was

be her grandfather/why won’t you deliver her

into a contest of who

would always win such a contest.

unable to argue further, simply broadcasted the surveillance footage of Eleanor to the

Yates changed his mind the instant

on the bed, fragile as a leaf despite her pregnancy, her complexion deathly

to the world around her,