Under the heiress facade

"Everyone thought you were dead back then, but I refused to believe it. I searched for you tirelessly, but I never found you.

"To keep myself from giving up, I created this periodic table," Bernard explained while looking at the meticulously maintained chart on the wall.

Hera gazed at the periodic table, noting the pristine glass. It was obviously maintained daily.

"I've been collecting two elements each year in my search for you. And I vowed to continue until the table was complete or until I couldn't find you," Bernard continued.

Hera turned her gaze to Bernard. His chiseled profile caused her heart to pound heavily.

There were 118 elements in the periodic table, and collecting two yearly would take him 59 years.

12 years ago, Bernard was just a 13-year-old boy when he made that stubborn promise to find Hera.

Throughout that time, Hera blamed Bernard for not accompanying her to Catherine's house and deliberately avoided him.

"Why didn't you come to the station to meet me back then?" Hera asked.

months investigating the incident to

threats from an unknown source. To protect Hera and Bernard, Daphne

on the day they were supposed to leave, Bernard changed his mind at

same day, after Daphne had taken Hera to Catherine's house, she died in a car accident on her way back

accident, she cried and wanted to return to the

could mean risking her life, as the Killian family might

Bernard and begged him to take her back to the

of Catherine's house and waited for him at the station all day, but he

They were on the run for six months before they settled in the mountains

station to meet you. But Chad's men caught me en route,"

the periodic table, he was

station, you were gone. Mrs. Jones' house

how Catherine had indeed set fire to her house and faked their deaths before they went on the run. Looking at Bernard and then at the periodic table, she suddenly felt a sense of calm. She moved

me all these years just because I'm

of that," Bernard replied