The Day Our Promise Breaks

Charles noticed Evelyn opened her eyes. He spoke in a deep voice, "Is it so hard to ask for my forgiveness?"

Just a little humility, and she wouldn't have to be taken away by the police.

Evelyn's eyes turned cold. Her cheeks, cleaned and medicated after a bath, weren't as painful anymore, but what she experienced in the detention center was still vividly etched in her mind.

Did he mean that because she hadn't begged him, everything she suffered through in the detention center was what she deserved?

Evelyn raised her hand and fiercely swatted Charles' hand away. Her face turned cold. "Charles, I would ask anyone but you. Stop pretending to care. I don't need it."

"Evelyn, you are so ungrateful!" Charles' expression suddenly darkened.

"Oh, I'm ungrateful?" Evelyn let out a cold laugh, but her eyes remained unamused. "Charles, you had someone slap me then came here to take care of me, and I'm supposed to be grateful to you?" "The detention center wasn't my doing."

Charles

an instant, the corners of her lips turned

him and she believed him. For her, Charles had no reason to lie because it wasn't

difference?"

say?" Charles' expression turned visibly colder. His gaze on Evelyn

flinching, "What am I trying to say? If not you, then who

"Where's the evidence?"

last bit of warmth in Charles' eyes vanished as if Evelyn had exhausted

let's be dear. If you hadn't lost your temper, ruined Sandy's celebration

party made Evelyn's chest heave olently. She

disappointed. Still, the way he unequivocally sided with Dahlia without distinguishing right from wrong made Evelyn's eyes

being squeezed tightly, the pain making her breathing painful. Her eyes were bloodshot as she glared at Charles, gritting her teeth. "Why did I ruin Sandy's