The Day Our Promise Breaks

The man dragged her inside once again.

Evelyn winced in pain and instinctively reached out to scratch his hand, which was immediately marked with several bloody scratches.

He got furious, threw Evelyn backward and slapped her hard across the face. "Bitch, you had this coming!"

Evelyn was struck so hard that stars danced before her eyes, and it took her a long time to recover.

In the dim light cast by the streetlamps outside, he gazed at Evelyn's stunningly beautiful face with a sinister smile. "Just behave and it'll be easier on you."

Then, he lunged at her.

"Let me go. I can pay you."

Evelyn was both scared and panicked, but she tried to keep calm on the surface, attempting to negotiate her release with the man.

"Money? No amount of money is as enticing as you, beauty."

unmoved, laughing lewdly and eagerly leaning down

breath made her stomach churn. Her throat was

her down,

the clothes inside

matter how hard she fought, she couldn't

her, wrapping around her like a venomous snake, sending chills

face was filled with

enter her, Evelyn suddenly felt lighter. Charles had kicked the man on top of her, and he flew into the wall with a loud

to the ground, and coughed up blood. With just

aura, took a few large strides towards the man. He easily

man was beaten to the brink of death and tossed aside by

at Charles' tall and upright figure, dazed. The scene reminded her

eight, she had lived with her foster mother and

was a servant, but Rosa cherished her as her own granddaughter, even more so

from an orphanage as a frail and skinny child, Evelyn had been nurtured back to health in just a few