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.

Lucius was imprisoned, Daphne spent months investigating

found some leads, she received death threats from an unknown source. To protect Hera and Bernard, Daphne planned to

to leave, Bernard changed his mind at the last minute and decided not to

after Daphne had taken Hera to Catherine's house, she died in a car

heard about Daphne's accident, she cried and wanted to return to the Killian residence to find Daphne, but Catherine

Hera that returning could mean risking her life, as the Killian family

called Bernard and begged him to take her back to the Killian

of Catherine's house and waited for him at the station all day, but he never showed. Instead, she was

the kidnapping. She only remembered that two days later, Catherine found her. They were on the run for six months before they settled in the mountains near the border. They might not have been separated for so many years if Bernard had gone with her

to the station to meet you. But

though his gaze was fixed on the periodic table, he was lost in

time I escaped and reached the station, you were gone. Mrs. Jones'

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

all these

because of that,"