A Second Chance at Forever novel (Eleanor and Bernard)

Chapter 1477

Garrett’s gaze lingered on Eleanor’s eyes, reflections of his own face staring back at him. He was spellbound, but painfully aware that she was no longer his. Suppressing the stirrings of his heart, he managed a strained whisper, “No, it’s not.”

If it wasn’t his child, then it had to be Bernard’s-a name foreign to her. Eleanor struggled with the thought, “Didn’t we promise to be together forever? How did we drift apart?”

Hailey had called Bernard her husband, and the doctors referred to Mr. Laurence in the same way. But in her heart, she had always longed for Garrett. How had it come to pass that she ended up with someone else?

Garrett’s fingers, held tight by Eleanor, slowly curled inward. After an internal battle, he gently eased her grip away. “It’s because I stopped loving you…”

Despite her amnesia and the vague awareness that much had happened during the time she was sleeping, Eleanor’s heart broke at his words. “Garrett, you promised to love me forever. I can’t believe that excuse.”

I will always love you, but you won’t.

Garrett’s unspoken truth hung heavy in the air as he comforted her, “You met someone who loves you more. When he returns, you’ll understand why we parted.”

Eleanor digested this revelation, her gaze fell and she murmured, “So I fell for someone else,

a tall figure staggered

doctor. Bernard, who had been kneeling in prayer, pleading with the heavens, struggled to his feet with

hadn’t mentioned Eleanor’s amnesia to Bernard, only that she had woken up. As Bernard saw her conscious for the first time in months, the tension that had gripped him dissipated,

of Aidyn and Scott, he stood firm against the door frame, ignoring the pain in

fingers reached for Eleanor’s cheek, and upon feeling her warmth, a relieved smile broke across his face. “Eleanor,

embrace and kiss her. But before his lips could meet her

I don’t know you.”

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Chapter 1477

hands bracing against the bed as if he might collapse. “You… don’t remember me?”

spoke of, but she felt only alienation. She couldn’t fathom why she would have married

explained, “her recollections halt before

Bernard’s gaze shifted, intending to glance at Garrett, he instead saw their entwined hands.