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

lips landed on her cheek, and his foul breath made her stomach churn. Her

kicking and punching. The man spread her legs and pinned her down, making her immobile. His eyes were full of lust. He couldn't wait any

he tore open the clothes inside her coat. His

fiercely. But no matter

coarse hands touched her, wrapping around her like a venomous snake, sending chills

face was filled with

as the man was about to enter her, Evelyn suddenly felt lighter. Charles had kicked the man on top of her, and

fell heavily to the ground, and coughed up blood. With just one kick, he was left

man. He easily lifted the man, delivering punch after punch, each

the brink

tall and upright figure, dazed. The scene reminded her

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

but Rosa cherished her as her own granddaughter, even more so than

and skinny child, Evelyn had been nurtured back to health in