A Second Chance at Forever ( Eleanor Shultz )
A Second Chance at Forever Chapter 1274

Chapter 1274

Watching Evan’s hunched figure, the light in Eleanor’s eyes faded bit by bit. She seemed to be sinking in endless darkness, filled with despair.

Her mind was filled with images of Bernard’s skull being cracked open. She didn’t know if they had given him any anesthetic. If they had, at least it would slightly alleviate the pain. If they hadn’t, it meant coldly cutting him open, then feeling the stuff in his brain being scooped out bit by bit…

Just thinking about Bernard dying after going through such pain, Eleanor’s heart felt like it was being torn in two. She took deep breaths but couldn’t seem to get enough oxygen. The strong sense of suffocation made her feel like she couldn’t breathe, like even the air couldn’t come in.

She couldn’t bear even a minor injury to Bernard, yet he was treated so brutally. How could she bear it, how?!

Eleanor clutched her chest in pain. She bent over but couldn’t alleviate the heart-wrenching pain. Tears rolled from her eyes, drop after drop, onto the floor….

Evan saw the tears on the ground and looked up to see Eleanor in unbearable pain. At this moment, feelings of guilt and self-blame welled up in him, making it even harder for him to look at her.

“My sister made him protect me, so he protected me…”

Mr. Law had traded his life for Evan’s…

Thinking of how Bernard had pushed him to safety, Evan buried his head deeper into his knees.

“I’m sorry…”

The sound in Eleanor’s ears slowly returned. Her swollen eyes moved from her toes, and she looked at Evan who had his head buried in his knees…

“You mean, he chose you, so…he left me?”

The words that came after were shaky, she barely managed to get them out.

He had promised her that he would come back, but he had left her to save someone else.

Should she praise his bravery or hate his cruelty?

A look of endless irony appeared on Eleanor’s pale face.

But could she blame him for this?

No.

Because her husband was saving someone, not hurting someone.

Eleanor seemed to understand him, but also didn’t. So in the end, she could only suppress all her emotions.

She loosened her hand from her chest, wiped the tears from her face, and looked again at Evan who was kneeling on the ground.

“Where are his ashes?”

She needed to see his remains, otherwise she wouldn’t believe that he was really dead.

“None of us could see his body.”

Evan clenched his fists tightly.

“I took the door of life, he took the door of death, and our paths were opposite, I couldn’t go back…”

He could recover Caleb’s broken bones, but he couldn’t get Mr. Law’s body.

But he knew that those who entered the door of death would be strapped to an operating table by masked men in black, have their heads cut open from the back, then have the stuff inside scooped out and thrown into the trash, and the remaining body kicked into the incinerator.

When he and Mr. Law entered the final round of the game, the walls around them played terrifying videos. The fear of death often leads to making the wrong choices. That’s what happened to the gamblers who entered with them. Once the door opened, they were taken straight to the operating table, had their skulls opened in front of the next participant, and then their bodies were incinerated.

At the last moment, he and Bernard made different choices. He was ready to face death, but before the door opened, Bernard pushed him into the door of life at a high speed, while he himself entered the door of death, without giving Evan any chance.

When she heard that no one had seen Bernard’s body, hope gradually ignited in Eleanor’s eyes.

“Did you see his head being cut open with your own eyes?”

Evan knew what Eleanor was hoping for, but…

“Before he entered the door of death, he gave me a deadline, 23 days. If he came back, it meant he survived. If not, it meant something had happened to him…”

So, whether he had personally seen Bernard’s body or not, Bernard wouldn’t be coming back.

“But…”

Eleanor wanted to struggle, but Evan shattered her hope.

“Mrs. Laurence, your husband had foreseen everything. The first letter he left for you was before he left, entrusted to Cedric to give to you a month later because he hoped to complete the mission and come back to you within a month. But he also knew that leaving Area Opaca was not easy, so he told you in the letter to wait another two months…

But he also realized that if he couldn’t complete the mission within a month, he wouldn’t be able to do it in two months either. So he wrote a second letter, entrusted to Cedric to give to Garett two months later. He did this in case he didn’t come back, someone else could take care of you.”

As Evan said this, his eyes filled with tears.

“Do you know, when I came back, I was also hoping, like you, that Bernard would come back within 23 days. But he didn’t. He didn’t, and I knew then that he really wasn’t coming back…”

Knowing that Bernard wasn’t coming back, he chose to face it bravely at the moment he received Scott’s call, instead of continuing to conceal it from Eleanor as Bernard had asked, or helping him take Eleanor to Garett.

Because Eleanor rejected Garett, it proved that she deeply loved Bernard. Such a woman, who loved Bernard deeply, had the right to know everything that had happened to him.