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."

lewdly and

and his foul breath made her stomach churn. Her throat was already hoarse from screaming,

spread her legs and pinned her down, making her immobile. His

rip, he tore open the clothes inside her coat. His actions became more

no matter how hard she

around her like a venomous snake, sending chills

was

had kicked the man on top of her, and he

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

strides towards the man. He

brink of death

at Charles' tall and upright figure, dazed.

she was eight, she had lived with her foster mother and the Jenkins family. Rosa treated her exceptionally well

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

frail and skinny child, Evelyn had been nurtured