A Second Chance at Forever novel (Eleanor and Bernard)

Chapter 1424

Gregory was nothing more than a lowly thug, a street rat who lacked any sophistication. How could a rat like him ever hope to stand against the towering might of Yates?

Even if Gregory had rallied many of his kind to form the Darkness gang, it would take a long time to amass the kind of power needed to take down Yates. “Gregory never got his chance for revenge, though. He was taken out by his own second-in-command before he could make his move.”

Yates got the picture, but he hadn’t realized that he had been living inside Gregory’s plot all along.

Gregory had offed Samantha early, so Yates never suspected a corpse he didn’t recognize.

Then, all the evidence of the gang assault on Pauline was cleverly redirected to point at the Hardys’ other enemies.

Meanwhile, Gregory had been using the turmoil as a smokescreen, looking to expand the Darkness, to eventually harness its power to exact his revenge.

It was a clever plan, indeed. A shame Gregory didn’t live long enough to see it through, taken out by his own brother in arms. In a way, it was instant karma.

The thought of Gregory’s demise brought a bitter sense of relief to Yates.

But how much better off was he, really?

This was all tied to him. It was his doing….

If he hadn’t killed Timothy, Samantha wouldn’t have had the chance to frame him, Gregory wouldn’t have directed his fury at Pauline, wouldn’t have unleashed his rage on her in such a vile way.

The image of Pauline, violated and broken, made Yates stagger backward, his aged body almost collapsing against the control panel. “No…It can’t be!” Yates refused to believe that he was the cause and Pauline was the outcome.

were true, what face would he have left to live on?

Timothy, so how could you have caused Pauline’s

Pauline was just an innocent carrying his cross.

could say for certain whether it was some divine punishment for Pauline’s

almost too

were suddenly flooded with

tried to kill me first. I just…” If it hadn’t been for Timothy’s

had been quietly listening, cut in

you hadn’t meddled in Pauline and Timothy’s relationship, why would Timothy have

bloodshot eyes to the woman standing

spitting image of a young Pauline.

first encounter with Pauline, love at first sight, a rescue turned romance.

for Pauline, Timothy was just her childhood sweetheart…” Yates aged eyes reddened as he spoke. “It was Timothy who sensed my interest in Pauline and preempted me by confessing his love… By the time I understood what love was, Timothy had already

injustice. “I was just

and he missed Pauline’s first love; a step too late

Yates mulled over the tangled web of rights and wrongs, and the painful memories of watching the woman he loved with another man, his nearly buried heart

feelings of sin, discomfort, regret, and longing, he slowly shifted his gaze to the cold, indifferent Bernard.

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have done in my

matters of the heart, he believed they were cut from the same cloth.

to tell him there was no other way but to take what he

just looked at him impassively.

Without waiting for Bernard’s answer, Yates responded to his own question, asserting his innocence.