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.

Yates finally pressed the intercom button

is first,

mocking smirk tinged the indifference

information without releasing her? Do you

come and get her.”

composed, gave Bernard the

you’ll

of a defeated man, and

at this development, almost simultaneously shaking their heads at Bernard, signaling him not

past the 48 corpses lying in

it again, you’re in no position to make

winter frost, shone with an unearthly glow, hinting at

hand over my wife personally, or you’ll get no information,

upper hand, whether in

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

for her yourself.

righteousness seemed to suggest that if Bernard didn’t

her grandfather/why won’t you deliver her

had turned into a contest of who

always win such a

unable to argue further, simply broadcasted the surveillance footage of

had been ready to outlast Yates changed his mind the instant he saw Eleanor. His

as a leaf despite her pregnancy, her complexion deathly pale.

and blind to the world around