Chapter 1427

Cradled in his arms, Eleanor’s whole body trembled, yet as she caught the familiar, icy scent of him, her shaking subsided.

Slowly, she lifted her eyes to meet the chiseled jawline of the man looking down at her with his long lashes casting shadows on his cheeks.

In each other’s gaze, they saw a reflection of their own faces – one pale, the other resolute neither willing to look away.

“Eleanor, let’s go home.” Ignoring the gunshot wound in his shoulder, Bernard scooped up Eleanor in a bridal carry.

The effort caused blood to trickle from his wound onto Eleanor’s cheek, a startling crimson smear.

“Put me down!” Eleanor commanded.

He was injured and still carrying her was he out of his mind? Eleanor, worried he was in pain, struggled to be released, but Bernard leaned in, pressing a kiss to her forehead.

“Easy, don’t move.”

That familiar term of endearment, “easy,” once again brought tears to Eleanor’s eyes.

“It’ll hurt if you exert yourself.”

His lips were white from strain, yet he smiled faintly. “As long as you don’t squirm, it won’t hurt,” he said.

Moved by Bernard’s stubbornness, Eleanor wrapped her arms around his neck for a fleeting moment.

She buried her face in his chest, feeling his heartbeat, her tears flowing uncontrollably.

such

if it meant giving up his life, he was always without regret.

love was so pure that

never treated him as well, yet this

Eleanor lifted her tear-filled eyes, looking at

you like this,

which only deepened the

said, there’s no shame in a wife’s

the woman in his

the bewildered Eleanor, and

need your

Not letting go.

Never letting go.

on the way, it’s

replied, “Even with an extra one, your husband can

the distance as they

the safe room, watching their retreating figures

for Eleanor’s forgiveness, only watching quietly, as if through them he saw himself and Pauline

pregnant at the time, had also been heartbroken to

making were discovered by

crying that she had fallen in love with him and found it unbearably

at the memory of

him blurred, he spoke in

you locked away, I’ll take care of it.

Eleanor heard him but offered no reply.

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