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 deste 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 havee to keep Eleanorpany. 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 med Cedric for their way to the house, ming him and all the other men for their arrogance,


    ming 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 littlefort 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 find 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, gentlyforting


    Eleanor like an older sister.


    Her gestures, just like the setting sun she brought with her when she came, gave a glimmer of hope


    andforted 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 nkly 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 leftst 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 find him, no matter what, she would find him.


    With this belief, Eleanor slowly clenched her fingers.


    Outside the vi, Scott was ying with Lego blocks with Nina.


    Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDra/ma.O(r)g!


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


    He had guessed early on that Bernard’s might nevere back, he seemed to have prepared himself


    mentally, but he was still very sad.


    Not the kind of sadness thates from suddenly learning of a friend’s death, but the kind of sadness


    thates from the slow copse of the world. So a tall and strong man, while ying with the child,


    red-eyed, uncontrobly, 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 yed with the Lego blocks while sneaking nces 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…”