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.
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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.
you’re such a
if it meant giving up his life, he was always without
was so pure that
never treated him as well,
Eleanor lifted her tear-filled eyes, looking at him through a mist.
to see you like this,
him, which only deepened the smile on Bernard’s
said, there’s no shame in a wife’s
Bernard, leaning on his wounded shoulder, held the woman
his eyes, looking at the bewildered Eleanor, and smiled again. “I’m not
I need your concern,
Not letting go.
Never letting go.
protested, “There’s a baby on the
an extra one, your husband can carry the weight.”
into the distance as they left.
the safe room, watching their retreating figures without trying
hope for Eleanor’s forgiveness, only watching quietly, as if through them he saw himself and Pauline from years
to see him wounded. She must have loved him
of his own making were
him, crying that she had fallen
with tears at the memory of
figures before him blurred, he
of it. Area
heard him
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