The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 304

Her voice was barely a whisper, fragile and pleading in Charles's ear, "Can you take me home, please?"

It was like she might break at any moment.

Charles couldn't shake the image of her collapsing in front of everyone. She looked so helpless, sprawled on the ground, her face ghostly pale.

His eyes darkened with concern.

Initially, she wouldn't even step outside. The fear of judgmental stares was too much for her to handle. But with him, she found the courage.

It took three months before Dahlia could smile again and live normally.

"Alright," Charles said, unable to let Dahlia remain there a moment longer. He scooped her up like a princess and carried her out.

Dahlia leaned against his shoulder, casting a glance at Evelyn. A slight, knowing smile touched her lips. So what if Evelyn was back from the dead? What difference did it make if she left a mark on Charles's heart? His first choice would always be Dahlia.

...

looked at Evelyn's bleeding calf with concern. From a young age, she'd been meticulous about her appearance, never allowing a single flaw. She

as if she were facing

name was like a

it off as just a scratch,

Mabel, just have a server show me the way. I'll handle it

abandoning her guests wasn't her style-it would be

beat around the bush. She quickly summoned a server to escort

sat on

at the bleeding cut on her leg, and memories swept her back two

was there. She desperately wanted to pull herself together but

both him and herself that she wouldn't give up.

in their sweet romance, were living happily. The very

shake the

count of how

a knife and slashed at her wrist. When the blood flowed, she just watched, feeling nothing, as if

make it. If not for

died two