A Second Chance at Forever (Eleanor and Bernard) novel Chapter 1273

Eleanor's body instantly tensed up, she didn't answer Robin's question. But Robin went on, "How much longer were you planning to keep this from me? My sister's fiancé is dead."

Eleanor lifted her head to look at Robin, saying, "I'm sorry."

Robin wanted to snap at Eleanor, could a simple sorry solve everything? But when he saw how red and puffy Eleanor's eyes were, he couldn't bring himself to say it.

He chose to avoid Eleanor's gaze and coldly said, "Go find out the truth first, then I'll have you answer me."

He knew that Bernard had been missing for three months, and now Evan had come back with Caleb's urn, but no Bernard. Which meant something serious must have happened to Bernard. What exactly happened, Robin didn't know, but Evan definitely did.

Eleanor nodded and then left the hospital. Under Scott's protection, she quickly returned to Fiord Roundabout. Evan hadn't left, he was still sitting in his original spot, caressing the urn, waiting for Eleanor's return.

Suppressing her grief over losing Caleb, and fighting to keep her body from trembling, Eleanor walked up to Evan, "Can you tell me now, what exactly happened?"

The urn held Caleb's ashes, but that didn't mean that nothing had happened to Bernard. If nothing had happened to him, he wouldn't have left that note to Garett. Eleanor had already realized this deep down, but like Katharine, she didn't want to believe it.

Evan removed his hand from the urn to look at Eleanor.

"There's a place called Area Opaca, similar to the Siren Organization. Only, their target is the Siren Organization. I don't know if the mastermind behind Area Opaca has a grudge against my foster father or Mr. Law, but once you go in there, you never come out..."

Upon hearing 'never come out', Eleanor's heart felt like it was being squeezed.

"So, the place you guys went to, was Area Opaca?"

Evan nodded, fear evident in his eyes.

"Three months ago, Mr. Law and I went to Area Opaca, Caleb arrived later, but he quickly caught up with us. In the seventh round of the game of life and death, Mr. Law walked into the door of death, Caleb chose to sacrifice himself to protect him..."

Evan caressed Caleb's urn again,

"When the door opened, Caleb fell into a pit of snakes, he was bitten to death, his flesh all eaten by the snakes, what's in this urn, are the bones Mr. Law and I risked our lives to retrieve..."

All that was left, were fragments of bones.

Hearing the cause of Caleb's death, Eleanor's blood seemed to freeze.

She saw in her mind the image of her and Caleb sitting at the ship's dining table, admiring the sea view while complaining about Bernard's terrible cooking.

Back then, Bernard, hearing their words, had forced Caleb to eat everything he had made with a cold face. After a few bites, Caleb couldn't stand it anymore, he jumped onto the railing, yelling at Bernard that his food was so bad he'd rather jump into the sea than eat it.

Caleb was always so full of life. How could he die in such a horrific way in just a few months?