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 eagerly leaning down to kiss

breath made her stomach

legs and pinned her down, making her immobile. His eyes were full

tore open the clothes inside her coat.

fiercely. But no matter how hard she fought, she couldn't stop

her, wrapping around her like a venomous snake, sending

was

felt lighter. Charles had kicked the man on top of her, and he

grunt, fell heavily to the ground, and coughed up blood. With just one

the man. He easily

beaten to the brink of death and tossed aside by

dazed. The scene reminded her of when

and the Jenkins family. Rosa treated her exceptionally

her as her own granddaughter, even more so

orphanage as a frail and skinny child, Evelyn had been nurtured back to health in