A Second Chance At Forever novel (Eleanor and Bernard) novel Chapter 1546

It was as if she had a premonition. When Damian, trembling, grasped Bernard's hand, Eleanor suddenly looked up. With just one glance, she became like a woman possessed, her hair disheveled, crawling on all fours to Damian's side.

She didn't cry, her gaze firm. When it landed on that frozen, pale hand, her eyelashes trembled, and with her bloody hands, she frantically began to dig through the snow covering Bernard.

The snow in the mountains was thicker than anywhere else, layer upon layer burying Bernard. With all her might, as she uncovered him from the snow, Eleanor saw his face, blood seeping from every orifice, freezing over his once handsome features, leaving not a trace of warmth...

Seeing his father silent, Damian couldn't believe it. He fell backward, sitting on his knees. Something snapped inside him, as if witnessing a giant tree fall, sending his whole world into an endless darkness...

"Dame."

Eleanor's calm voice suddenly reached his ears. "Help me."

Damian slowly came back to reality, meeting his mother's bloodshot eyes. In them, there wasn't sorrow but disbelief that his father had passed away.

So his mother, holding his father, kept rubbing his hands, his face, trying to use her warmth to revive the man frozen stiff...

In that moment, Damian too believed his father was just frostbitten. He, like Eleanor, lifted his father's legs, removed the rigid shoes, then lifted his own shirt to place his father's feet against his stomach...

He used the warmth of his belly to ease his father's feet, lifting the pant legs, warming his hands, and rubbing his father's skin...

After Eleanor melted the snow on Bernard's cheeks with the warmth of her palms, hoping to revive him, she rubbed his cheeks over and over, desperately.

"My love, you told me to wait for you, and I did, obediently. Why didn't you come back as you promised?"

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