A Second Chance at Forever ( Eleanor Shultz )
A Second Chance at Forever Chapter 1277

Chapter 1277

After they left, Eleanor sunk down onto the couch, her vacant eyes filled with despair.

“Evan, I need to be alone for a while.” In the desolate living room, a faint voice echoed, filled with loneliness, coldness, and desperation.

Evan’s gaze rested on her slightly swollen face. He opened his mouth to say something, but in the end, he said nothing.

His heavy footsteps slowly faded away, leaving the vast room to Eleanor alone.

She was like a lonely gust of wind, so light as if she didn’t exist, even her breath was faint….

After a while, she lifted her heavy, blurred eyes, looking at the setting sun outside the window….

The light was still there, the world was still turning, but her Bernard was gone.

No one could empathize with her feelings’ at this moment, and Eleanor wouldn’t burden anyone with her grief. She just sat there, gazing upwards with shattered hope, silently feeling the pain of losing Bernard.

After a while, the door opened again, the setting sun poured into the room from the horizon…

Cedric Laurence, holding Hailey’s hand, stood at the door, gazing at the Eleanor’s figure, unable to regain his senses for a long time.

Eventually, Hailey released Cedric’s hand, stepping into the sunlight, one step at a time, until she came to Eleanor’s side.

As she was embraced by a warm hug, Eleanor, who seemed soulless, finally had a slight reaction. She slowly lifted her head from the crook of Hailey’s arm, and saw Hailey’s worried face and tear-stained eyes.

“Eleanor, I just found out… I thought Bernard had just gone on a business trip, I… I’m sorry…

If she’d known earlier, she would have come to keep Eleanor company. But Cedric only told her the truth now, and if it wasn’t for fear that Eleanor might do something rash, he probably would’ve continued to keep it from her.

She blamed Cedric for their way to the house, blaming him and all the other men for their arrogance, blaming them for not telling their wives anything. Now, when something happened, they were left helpless.

Eleanor, feeling as if a mountain was pressing down on her heart, found it hard to breathe. But seeing Hailey crying so bitterly, she still reached out, clumsily, and hugged Hailey back.

She didn’t have the strength to speak, she just leaned on her loved one, seeking a little comfort from her. Hailey knew she needed strength, so she gathered all hers and held Eleanor tightly.

“Eleanor, it’s okay. Bernard is so strong, he will replace a way to save himself. You have to believe in him, you must believe in him…”

Even though she couldn’t hold back her tears, Hailey still endured her shaking voice, gently comforting Eleanor like an older sister.

Her gestures, just like the setting sun she brought with her when she came, gave a glimmer of hope and comforted Eleanor’s crumbling heart.

Eleanor clung to Hailey like a lifeline, buried her head in her neck, and like a child, sobbed her heart out…

Cedric’s eyes, red from holding back his tears, moved away from Eleanor’s face to the urn on the table. For some reason, the moment he saw it, he knew it couldn’t be Bernard’s.

The crying in the living room gradually turned into sobbing in the silent room. After a long while, Cedric lifted his heavy gaze to Eleanor, “Ellie, you didn’t choose Garett, so from now on, I’ll protect you.”

Eleanor slowly lifted her tear-streaked eyes and stared blankly at Cedric, “Do you also believe that he’s dead?”

Cedric shook his head, “I don’t.”

Bernard was a master strategist and controller of all. Cedric refused to believe that Bernard was gone just like that.

Even if Bernard had left last words, for Cedric, brothers are connected by heart, and he couldn’t feel death, “I don’t believe it, so he’s not dead.”

The determination in Cedric’s eyes made the hope in Eleanor’s heart deepened, but she didn’t respond, she just remained silent. She defined Bernard as missing, not gone.

Therefore she would replace him, no matter what, she would replace him.

With this belief, Eleanor slowly clenched her fingers.

Outside the villa, Scott was playing with Lego blocks with Nina.

He hadn’t heard their conversation, but he felt it.

He had guessed early on that Bernard’s might never come back, he seemed to have prepared himself mentally, but he was still very sad.

Not the kind of sadness that comes from suddenly learning of a friend’s death, but the kind of sadness that comes from the slow collapse of the world. So a tall and strong man, while playing with the child, red-eyed, uncontrollably, several times.

Nina was a smart child who was good at reading people’s expressions. Seeing the heavy expressions on the adults’ faces, she knew something had happened.

She quietly played with the Lego blocks while sneaking glances at Scott, “Mister, did Uncle Bernard leave like the weird uncle?

Scott’s tall body stiffened for a moment, then he reached out and touched her head, “No, your Uncle Bernard is so strong, how could he leave?”

Nina shrugged, pretending not to care, “Even though the weird uncle is also pretty strong, Uncle Bernard is stronger, he probably won’t leave…”