The Day Our Promise Breaks

As the second round of fireworks soared into the sky, exploding in a burst of dazzling colors, Charles and Dahlia simultaneously bent down to kiss Sandy. One on the left and one on the right, their affectionate kisses landed on Sandy's cheeks.

The moment was frozen in time.

"Woah. Mr. Jenkins really dotes on his daughter."

"Well, I heard Dahlia is the love of his life."

Envious voices filled the air.

Evelyn's eyes turned bloodshot as she tightly wrapped her daughter's urn in her down jacket. Her heart was twisting in pain.

She covered the front of the urn with her hand, whispering softly, "Charlie, don't look!"

She didn't want her daughter to be sad.

...

o'clock at night when Evelyn returned to Oakwood Manor, the villa she

her heavy steps upstairs, she entered her daughter's room. After tidying up her daughter's belongings, she sat on the little bed holding her daughter's urn all night long. The next morning,

It was Charles.

at her, his expression as cold as ever. He did not say

been three days since their daughter died, and he only just remembered

at Evelyn's glare. Was she still angry about him missing out on Charlie's birthday the day before

argue with her. Suppressing his displeasure, he said in a deep voice, "I came to take

'amusement park,' Evelyn's heart twisted in pain. She could never forget the scene

pool of her vomited blood, and Charles

I'm having a lot of

could spend time alone with her

foolishly waiting in the cold wind

became bloodshot as she glared at Charles with rage. Her voice was cold as ice. "She's dead! Where are you going to take her? To the underworld?" "Evelyn!!"

curse her own daughter to death over such a trivial

Charlie's mother. How could she say