The Day Our Promise Breaks

Charles' handsome features softened as he gazed down at Evelyn.

In this moment, she had shed the prickly armor she had worn during the day and became delicate and tender. It was like she was nuzzling into the dry palm of his hand, seeking comfort. Accidentally, she brushed against a wound on his cheek.

"Ah-" Evelyn winced in pain, shrinking back.

The moment his palm felt empty, Charles reached out to turn on the bedside lamp with a click.

Light flooded the room, casting everything in brightness. The sight of Evelyn's swollen cheeks caught in Charles' view. The imprint of a slap was stark against her skin, the sight darkening his eyes with a sudden chill. He rose to his feet, rummaging through the first aid kit under the coffee table for fever medicine while dialing Aiden.

"Mr. Jenkins, what can I do for you?"

"Find out who messed with Evelyn in the detention center. Make sure they're taken care of properly. The payback must be a hundredfold." Charles' voice was icy, carrying a bone-chilling coldness.

"Acknowledged." Hanging up, Charles grabbed the fever medicine and returned to the room.

...

In her feverish haze, Evelyn felt someone lifting her up, a deep, magnetic voice coaxing near her ear, "Open your mouth. Take the medicine."

medicine, Evelyn instinctively

persuaded her into

awoke, it was pain that brought her back. She found herself on the headmaster's bed, a corpulent man with a

apart. In his other hand, he held a lit candle.

pain. Her cries of pain were drowned by despair as the man

QUMS

"No!"

refusing

He took the medicine into his own mouth, lifted

Charles into parting her

trying to push

deepened the kiss, and forced her to

irresistibly alluring like a cat's meow. Charles'

swollen lips. His thumb gently caressed her lips, which were swollen from his kisses.

swirled in his eyes.

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the neckline of her pajamas, undoing them one by one. Without proceeding further, he simply changed her out of her damp pajamas. Evelyn