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.

but her face betrayed not a hint of genuine care for

fact, since she'd arrived, she hadn't even looked Sandy in

"Ugh!"

had no idea how many times she'd called, but

knew, deep down, what

her, not

It was deliberate.

left her that sliver of hope

and again, torturing

Dahlia was right.

was doing it

he already knew about

doctor had

Sandy, as soon as her fever worsened and turned into an infection, the hospital reached out to him

They told him everything.

the hospital as soon as the fever

when

Dahlia

to the hospital. She

Sto Charles's house.

were

a scheme cooked up by mother and daughter

him feel guilty-there was nothing they

anyone could ask," Charles finally said to the doctor

would never tell the doctors not

if she couldn't be saved, it was the

said, if anything happened to Sandy, it would be Dahlia's karma coming

certainly wasn't going to pull strings, call in specialists, and move heaven and earth for

didn't

after hanging up, his

it was Dahlia, borrowing someone else's phone to call him

her beg,

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

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

secretly put his phone on

single ring, leaving Eve in utter despair,