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."

laughing lewdly and eagerly leaning

cheek, and his foul breath made her stomach

and punching. The man spread her legs and pinned her down, making her immobile. His eyes were full of

inside her coat. His

Evelyn screamed fiercely. But no matter how hard

wrapping around her like a

Evelyn's face was filled

felt lighter. Charles had kicked the man

man let out a pained grunt, fell heavily to the ground, and coughed up blood. With just one kick, he was left powerless

man.

was beaten to the brink of death

figure, dazed. The scene reminded her of when she

eight, she had lived with her foster mother and the Jenkins

foster mother 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