A Second Chance at Forever novel (Eleanor and Bernard)

Mark grasped his phone, which remained on silent, its screen flashing incessantly.

Instead of immediately answering, he glanced towards the study’s door, through which Cecilia had disappeared.

A lump formed in Mark’s throat.

He then pressed the answer button and Laura’s voice came through.

The young girl sounded a bit uneasy.

Mark lit a cigarette and held it delicately between his fingers. He asked softly, “It’s late. Why aren’t you asleep?”

Laura replied quietly, “I’m scared.”

surge of sympathy for the

Laura and entrusted her care to a

unfamiliar environment, a

requested that she pass the phone to Paul’s parents where he talked

learn that Laura was having trouble falling

would take good care

bid Mark good night, a sense of sorrow weighed heavily on her. She had been deprived of a family’s warmth since childhood and now couldn’t often see

up the phone, feeling a surge of

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extinguished his cigarette and returned to the

enough, Cecilia was still