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 a

to do anything. Even if it meant giving up

was so pure that Eleanor felt

well, yet this

Eleanor lifted her tear-filled eyes, looking at him through a

you like this,

concern for him, which only deepened

shame in a wife’s concern.

on his wounded shoulder, held the woman in his arms tighter as he walked out.

eyes, looking at the bewildered Eleanor, and smiled again. “I’m

I need your concern,

Not letting go.

Never letting go.

protested, “There’s a baby on the way, it’s

one, your husband can

exchange faded into the

stepped out of the safe room, watching their retreating figures without trying to stop them.

didn’t hope for Eleanor’s forgiveness, only watching quietly, as if through them

heartbroken to

hand, and the seeds of his own making were discovered by Pauline, who then

crying that she had fallen in love with him and found it unbearably hard to leave.

eyes clouded with tears at the memory of Pauline’s painful

before him blurred, he

puppet you locked away, I’ll take care of

Eleanor heard him but offered

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