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.

and afraid, but her face betrayed not

she'd arrived, she hadn't even

"Ugh!"

how many times she'd called, but no one ever picked

down, what it

her, not

It was deliberate.

her that sliver of hope on

her call again and again, torturing her

Dahlia was right.

was doing

had even called, he already knew about

had contacted

concern for Sandy, as soon as her fever worsened and turned into

They told him everything.

taken to the hospital as soon as the fever started, things could

when Sandy

Dahlia

the hospital. She

Sto Charles's house.

intentions were all

this fever might even have been a scheme cooked up by mother

him feel guilty-there was nothing they

your best. That's all anyone could ask,"

would never tell the doctors not to

couldn't be saved, it was the result

to Sandy, it would be Dahlia's karma coming

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

two didn't deserve

while after hanging up,

Dahlia, borrowing someone else's phone to call him for

beg, Charles

Charlie's surgery-how Eve had also called him again and again, desperate for

woman, knowing full well it

put his phone

heard a single ring, leaving Eve in utter