The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 186

Sandy, tears streaming down her face, looked up at Charles with a heartbreaking expression. "Daddy, if I'm not your daughter. Who is my dad?"

Hearing Sandy's question made his heart ache. He gently wiped away her tears with his hand. "Don't cry, Sandy. Ignore what Ms. Evelyn said. You are my daughter."

"Charles..." Dahlia clung to Charles' hand like it was her lifeline. Her eyes said things only they understood, and her voice sounded small and helpless.

Charles squeezed her hand back, giving her a reassuring nod.

"Charles!" Patrick, witnessing Charles' gesture, was furious. His face darkened.

"Dad, Sandy is my daughter!"

comforted, Charles stood and faced Patrick. This was his debt to Dahlia. After the uproar Evelyn caused today, his father would never agree to acknowledge Dahlia and Sandy at the dinner party.

beside himself with rage at Charles' declaration. It was so obvious! Charles had known all along that the child wasn't his by blood! Was he really that smitten with Dahlia? The Jenkins family had truly birthed a lovesick

seated elders, finally settling on

Charles' words, Dahlia

the Jenkins family's eyes were glued to Charles, she

into a triumphant smile.

make it into the Jenkins family

defiance, he feared the Jenkins family elders might eventually yield to Charles' authority as head of the family and allow Sandy into the family records. He stormed

to intervene.

rage,

ignoring the honor of the Jenkins family for a woman. Are you trying

Patrick, clutching the family registry, stormed out of the ancestral hall, fuming. Witnessing this, the other Jenkins family