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."

and eagerly

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

punching. The man spread her legs and pinned her down, making her

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

But no matter how hard she fought, she couldn't

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

Evelyn's face was filled with

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

the ground, and

strides towards the man.

to the brink of death and

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

mother and the Jenkins family. Rosa treated her exceptionally well in

servant, but Rosa cherished her as her own granddaughter, even more

as a frail and skinny child, Evelyn had been nurtured back