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."

was unmoved, laughing lewdly and eagerly

on her cheek, and his foul breath made her stomach churn. Her throat was already hoarse from screaming, but she refused to

her legs and pinned her down, making her immobile.

inside her

no matter how hard she fought, she

her, wrapping around her like

was filled

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

let out a pained grunt, fell heavily to the ground, and coughed up blood. With just one kick,

large strides towards the man. He easily lifted the man, delivering punch after

was beaten to the brink of death and tossed aside by

and upright figure, dazed. The scene reminded her of when she was

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

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

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