The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 325

"Eve, please, just listen to me and don't make me angry."

"Is it Charles?"

Evelyn's eyes were blazing with anger.

Andrew didn't say a word, but his silence was enough of an admission.

"Dr. Nelson, just because Charles said something, you're refusing to operate on my mom? That's a human life at stake! Doesn't your conscience bother you at all?"

Andrew's lips were pressed into a tight line, offering no response.

Evelyn stared at the unmoving Andrew, realizing that no amount of pleading would change his mind. Without Charles's say-so, Andrew wouldn't budge.

With a heavy heart, Evelyn left Andrew's office.

Outside the hospital, she dialed Brooks.

"Evelyn."

picked up

voice, Evelyn felt her eyes prick with tears. "Brooks, Charles interfered, and now Andrew won't do the

worry, I'm on my way to the

to calm

was tight with Charles. There shouldn't have been any conflict, but he had overestimated Charles's

thought Charles would use Evelyn's

dashed to the hospital, only to find Andrew had already left and was

Holding Josephine's medical file,

to search for another doctor willing to

but no one

to touch

success rates were too

confidently taken it on. Brooks understood how much Josephine meant to Evelyn. He couldn't risk her life

was that Charles wouldn't actually let anything terrible happen to Josephine

five years and even protected the person responsible for her death? Could she really bet on his

next evening, Evelyn called Charles. "Where

sent her a location. He hadn't reached out

her eventual surrender. He knew

over. Charles had clearly given the green light, as her