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 leaning

dodged. The man's lips landed on her cheek, and his foul breath made her

and pinned her down, making her immobile. His

tore open the clothes inside her coat. His

But no matter how

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

was filled

Evelyn suddenly felt lighter. Charles had kicked the man on top of her, and he flew into

a pained grunt, fell heavily to the ground, and coughed

man. He easily lifted the

the brink of death and

tall and upright figure, dazed.

with her foster mother and the Jenkins family.

Rosa cherished her as her own granddaughter,

frail and skinny child, Evelyn had been nurtured