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.

left her, Sigrid had held up three fingers in a hysterical

“Chase, remember this-I will completely forget you and will love another. And when that day comes, don’t you dare look back, or may you be cursed to

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

her over the years, fearing she would love someone else. Yet when the day actually came, the pain

would have to watch

had forbidden him from looking back, threatening him with severe retribution. Perhaps Sigrid knew this day would come

a congratulatory gift, he entered the delivery room, “Cedric, Hailey, congratulations on the arrival

wrong, but his ashen face clearly screamed of a life in

him to see the babies, cracking jokes to

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

to have any interest in Garrett. Although “not bad” didn’t

Sigrid was intrigued, but if she and Garrett were to become an item, wouldn’t

an outcome, his cool gaze flickering towards Chase

Sigrid, “I heard what you said just now. Garrett is a good man. If you

thought Garrett was a good man, nowhere near liking him yet. But when she caught Chase’s look of despair, she was reminded of her own past struggles and