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."

mention of medicine, Evelyn instinctively

her into taking a

corpulent man with a bare chest standing by the bed holding a

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

skin, causing excruciating pain. Her cries of pain were drowned by despair as the

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"No!"

refusing to open her

eyes. He took the medicine into his own

easily lured by Charles into parting

she had ingested, Evelyn frowned, trying to push the medicine

caught the pill, deepened the kiss, and forced her to swallow it

and they were irresistibly alluring like a cat's meow. Charles' Adam's apple bobbed as

released her swollen lips. His thumb gently caressed her

swirled in his eyes.

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