The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 234 At that time, Sandy was sick, and all his attention was focused on her. When the call came in, he was right there beside Sandy, taking care of her. But he had to drop everything and rush back to Oakwood Manor.

When he heard what the servant had to say, he immediately thought it was a ploy. He was convinced that Evelyn and Charlie had cooked up a scheme to drag him away from Sandy. He was furious!

The servant saw Charles, and once he grilled her, the truth spilled out. Evelyn had intentionally given Charlie a cold bath, making her catch a chill. The nanny mentioned overhearing Evelyn telling Charlie that her dad had married another woman only because her daughter was sick. So if Charlie got sick too, Charles would come to be with her.

Once he understood the truth about Charlie's illness, his dislike for Evelyn deepened, and he grew colder towards Charlie, assuming she had been misled. When you view everything through a lens of dislike, it all gets twisted.

After that, he focused solely on Sandy, who was genuinely unwell. Because of this incident, whenever Evelyn later called saying Charlie was sick and needed money, he just laughed it off. He saw it as her newest trick.

money. So, he never took her seriously when she said Charlie was sick. He didn't buy into the idea that she was short on cash. Wasn't a million a month more than enough for minor illnesses? Did Evelyn

believed her

later, when Evelyn tried to use her charms to squeeze more money out of him, he went with it because he was already

told him Charlie was sick and struggling with kidney failure. He had turned it around

being the sick one.

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