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

but in an instant, the corners of her lips turned into a

her, Charles

difference?" Evelyn asked mockingly in

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

met his gaze without flinching, "What am I trying to say? If not you, then who else but Dahlia?" Evelyn

"Where's the evidence?"

warmth in Charles' eyes vanished as if Evelyn had exhausted

towering beside the bed, looking down at Evelyn. He said with a chilling voice, "Evelyn, let's be dear. If you hadn't

made Evelyn's chest heave olently.

the way he unequivocally sided with Dahlia without distinguishing right from wrong made

Her eyes were bloodshot as she glared at Charles, gritting her teeth. "Why did I ruin Sandy's party? It's because Dahlia