A Second Chance at Forever (Eleanor and Bernard) novel Chapter 199

Bernard covered his eyes with one hand, not wanting Hailey to see him in his current ashamed state.

But Hailey still saw the tears oozing from his fingertips, unclear about his emotions right now.

She wanted to continue bombarding him with harsh words, but she felt that he could not take any more blows at this moment.

She remembered the letter Eleanor left behind, walked over. Hailey opened the drawer, and handed the note to him.

"If it wasn't for the letter Eleanor wrote to you, I wouldn't have let you in this room." After stuffing the note into his hand, Hailey turned around and left the room.

Bernard stared blankly at the note in his hand, losing all his courage to open it.

He leaned against the wall, silent for over ten minutes, before finally unfolding the note slowly...

[Bernard said, our relationship was just an arrangement.

Turns out, he didn't love me.]

The few short sentences made him completely collapse, and endless regret surged up in his heart.

He couldn't help trembling while holding the paper, yet he couldn't stop touching the elegant handwriting on it over and over again.

She didn't say anything more; she only used brief words to express his heartlessness.

He thought back to that night when he held her and made love to her, but he couldn't help getting angry and saying harsh things.

In fact, he didn't want to let her go with Garett, but the words of staying changed.

If he had known that she would leave this world so soon, he would have put down his ridiculous pride and told her...

In fact, he had fallen for her at first sight a long time ago.

Not in the pouring rain at midnight, but at the entrance of the University of A.

He was sitting in the shade of a tree, covered in blood, waiting for Cedric Laurence.

She might have come to school to find someone, and when she saw him injured, she kindly gave him a bottle of water and urged him to go to the hospital for treatment.

He didn't look back at her, and she didn't pay attention to him anymore. She just left the water behind him and hurried away.

After she left, he looked back and saw her pretty side face, engraving her outline in his heart.

The next time they met was the night she sold herself, and he happened to pass by the nightclub and saw her.

She was soaked wet, her eyes swollen from crying, and utterly desperate. Seeing her like this, he couldn't help but walk over.

He originally wanted to give her money directly, but when he stood in front of her and saw her looking up at him like a little bunny, he couldn't help but swallow and reached out his hand to her. The moment he touched her, there was no resistance at all.

She had said that after breaking up, who she was with had nothing to do with him, and he had no right to stop her from pursuing better people.

But when he saw her coming out of the elevator with Jason, he still lost control.

He tried hard to control his jealousy, and he tested her relentlessly again.

He wanted to know if, in the past five years, she had ever been moved by him.

If she had, he would do everything he could to break free from all restraints and take her away from the predicament.

He didn’t even dare to dream of her loving him like she loved Garett; a little bit of affection from her would have been enough.

But every test came back with a disappointing result.

Despite that, he still won her over in a stupid way.

It was then that he realized that he not only desired her body, but he also had her deeply in his heart.

But he fell in love with a woman for the first time and didn't know how to confess to her who didn't love him, so he never spoke about it.

Now, looking at the words she left him, he suddenly felt that if he had said it first, she might have responded that she loved him too.

But it was all too late now. He killed her and made her think, till her death, that he never loved her.