The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 531

After a while, the call finally connected. Charles's hoarse voice came through on the other end. "Who is this?"

Charles hadn't slept all night.

"Charles, Sandy's in the hospital right now. The doctor says there's nothing else they can do. Please, you have to help her. You're the only one who can save Sandy..."

Dahlia's plea was abruptly cut short when Charles hung up without a word.

On the hospital bed, Sandy was barely hanging on, the doctors fighting for her last breath.

She heard her mother calling her father, and for a moment, her clouded eyes brightened, a spark of hope flickering within them.

Her lips trembled as she whispered, barely audible, "Daddy..."

But when she saw her father hang up, that little spark was instantly snuffed out.

Panic welled up in Dahlia's chest. She called again.

The call went through-Charles hadn't blocked her number.

He was still soft-hearted, after all.

If not, knowing it was her, he would have blocked her immediately.

That tiny sliver of hope pushed her on.

No answer the first time, she tried again.

No answer the second time, she called a third.

Again and again.

With every unanswered call, her panic grew.

Because Sandy's condition was getting worse by the minute.

A nurse watched quietly from the side.

This scene-Dahlia frantically calling for help-was all too familiar. It was just like when Charlie's mother had learned that her son's kidney had been taken by someone else and he couldn't get the transplant. She had stood outside the operating room, desperately dialing a number that no one ever answered, over and over.

But there was a difference. You could tell, just by looking, that Charlie's mother had truly loved her son, terrified at the thought of losing him.

in front of her, Dahlia, was panicked and afraid, but her

she hadn't even looked Sandy in

"Ugh!"

she'd

knew, deep down,

her, not because

It was deliberate.

her that sliver

her call again and again, torturing her with false

Dahlia was right.

was doing

called, he already knew about

had contacted

worsened and turned into an infection, the hospital reached out to him

They told him everything.

the

instead, when

Dahlia

bring her to the hospital. She

Sto Charles's house.

intentions were all

a scheme cooked up by mother

to make him feel guilty-there was

could ask," Charles finally said

the doctors not

it

to Sandy, it would

pull strings, call in specialists, and move heaven and earth

two didn't

short while after hanging up, his phone rang

Dahlia, borrowing someone else's phone to call him

beg, Charles

of Charlie's surgery-how Eve had also called him again

vicious woman, knowing full well it was Charlie's life on

his phone

hadn't heard a single ring, leaving Eve in utter despair,