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

Timothy, so how could you have caused

Pauline was just

who could say for certain whether it was some divine

almost too much for Yates to bear.

were suddenly

me first. I just…” If it hadn’t been for Timothy’s bullet, which nearly ended him, Yates wouldn’t

who had been quietly listening, cut in sharply at

you hadn’t meddled in Pauline and Timothy’s relationship, why would Timothy have wanted you dead?”

bloodshot eyes to the woman standing serenely behind the

the spitting image

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

was Timothy who sensed my interest

of injustice. “I was just a step too late.”

late and he missed Pauline’s first

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 still trembled with the pain he could not

sin, discomfort, regret, and longing, he slowly shifted his gaze to the cold,

འཇ ཧ ེ

would you have done

they were cut from

no other way but to take what he

just looked at him

waiting for Bernard’s answer, Yates responded to his