Semua Bab Fourteen Days To Say Goodbye: Bab 11 - Bab 18

He stepped out and scanned the area until his eyes landed on her.She was standing by the pool, her back to him, her head tilted slightly as she looked up at the moon. It wasn’t lost on Nicholas that this was the first time he had seen Eleanor wear something so bold and bright.Usually, she wore dull, simple colors that made her easy to overlook. She always chose modest, plain outfits that blended into the background rather than standing out. But now… dressed in that red gown, with the high slit running down her leg, she looked completely different.But it wasn’t just the change in her appearance that affected him. It was something deeper, something he couldn’t quite put into words.There was a confidence in the way she carried herself that he had never noticed before. She no longer looked like the quiet, obedient wife he had grown used to seeing. Instead, she looked like someone who had finally stopped trying to please everyone else and had decided to be herself. For the first time,

Nicholas remembered the necklace.He had ordered it almost a week ago after his company successfully launched a new mall project. It was something he did whenever the company achieved a major milestone. He celebrated every success by handing out bonuses to his employees and buying gifts for his family.The gifts were always the same. Designer clothes for his mother. Designer handbags and shoes for his sister. Jewelry for Eleanor.He never put much thought into choosing them. He simply assumed that if a gift was expensive enough, it was bound to be appreciated.His brows drew together, a sudden realization settling deep into his chest.How many pieces had he bought for Eleanor over the last two years?Emeralds. Diamonds. Sapphires. Rubies.Enough to fill an entire room, probably.Yet, for some reason, he couldn’t recall seeing her wear any of them.“…Sir?”Ethan’s voice snapped him back to attention.Nicholas cleared his throat, running a hand through his hair. “No. Put it on my desk.

The moment those words left Eleanor’s mouth, Kent and Bella both spat out the tea they were drinking.“What?” Kent grunted in shock, his old, cunning eyes widening with disbelief. “What did you just say?”Bella swallowed hard before setting her teacup back on the glass table. “Why would you say something like that? Are you that desperate to send us to our graves?”Eleanor frowned, unable to understand what the hell her divorce had to do with them passing away. It wasn’t as if they cared about her—or loved her enough to feel upset seeing her marriage turn into such a joke. It certainly wasn’t that.“I said I’m getting a divorce,” she repeated, keeping both her voice and expression calm and steady. “I figured it was better to tell you myself before you heard it from someone else.”That wouldn’t end well—she could already imagine it. If there was one thing the Berkshire family cared about, it was their image within their social circle. If they heard something like this from an outsider,

The dining room had never felt less lively.With Nicholas sitting to her left and her father sitting to her right, Eleanor felt like her face was practically on fire, though for entirely different reasons.Her father kept throwing angry, heated glares her way because he thought she had deliberately kept him in the dark about Nicholas’s visit, while Nicholas seemed to be staring… well, she didn’t really know why he seemed so interested in her all of a sudden.Before today, he had never even spoken of her family, so why visit them out of nowhere now?She couldn’t help but wonder what he was trying to achieve. Was there something she was missing? This visit seemed out of character for him in more ways than one.It didn’t help that her sister, Brooke, and her older brother, Kevin, also seemed to have found time to join them for lunch.“So, how have you been, sis?” Brooke asked, in that same sweetened voice of hers that she always used when they were surrounded by an audience. “I am so hap