A Second Chance at Forever novel (Eleanor and Bernard)

Chapter 1438

Sigrid had been Garrett’s rock, weathering the storm of tough times alongside him. And Chase? He had been hiding in the shadows, watching as Sigrid’s eyes slowly filled with Garrett, piece by piece…

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It seemed more heart-wrenching to witness the person etched in your very soul fall for someone else, rather than just falling out of love. Especially when she admitted it, it felt like Chase had been shot through the heart with a volley of arrows…

The pain gnawed its way into his palms before piercing through his limbs, slicing his flesh bit by bit, bleeding him out drop by drop. After such agony, life seemed utterly meaningless.

Leaning against the wall, Chase turned away, his eyes misting over. Slowly tilting his head back, he caught a glimpse of the azure sky and felt that the world was still beautiful. So why was his heart riddled with holes?

“Sigrid, I was ready to silently stand by you for a lifetime, under one condition-that neither of us would fall for someone else. But why did you have to be the one to break the only rule we had left?”

However, he seemed to forget that this ‘rule’ was one he had made himself, irrelevant to Sigrid. Naturally, he had to bear the bitter fruit of it being broken.

Unwilling to accept this bitter fruit, Chase placed his hand over his aching heart, then slowly turned to look at Sigrid, who was sitting next to Eleanor.

up three fingers in a hysterical oath

that day comes, don’t you dare

had hammered against Chase’s heart chamber night after night, painfully unforgettable, etched in his mind to this very

feared the vow coming true, so he stayed close to her over the years, fearing she would love

else. It meant that he would have to watch the woman who

looking back, threatening him with severe retribution. Perhaps Sigrid

like a living corpse. Holding a congratulatory gift, he entered the delivery room, “Cedric,

greeted them with a smile as if nothing was wrong, but his ashen face clearly screamed of a life in tatters. Cedric surely knew what

pulled him to see the babies, cracking jokes to

Sigrid before Chase’s abrupt arrival interrupted their conversation. The topic was dropped abruptly,

Sigrid to have any interest in Garrett. Although “not bad” didn’t mean she was in love, it implied a desire to take things

if she and Garrett were to become an item, wouldn’t that

keen on such an outcome, his cool gaze flickering towards Chase with

before turning to Sigrid, “I heard what you said just now. Garrett is a

yet. But when she caught Chase’s look of despair, she was reminded of