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.

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

since she'd arrived, she hadn't

"Ugh!"

idea how many times she'd called, but

knew, deep down, what it

her, not because he cared

It was deliberate.

sliver of hope on

again, torturing her with false

Dahlia was right.

doing

even called, he already

doctor had

of his prior concern for Sandy, as soon as her fever worsened and turned into an infection, the hospital reached out to him

They told him everything.

had been taken to the hospital as soon as the fever started, things could have

when Sandy

Dahlia

bring her to the hospital. She deliberately

Sto Charles's house.

were all too

have been a scheme cooked

anything to make him feel guilty-there was

all anyone could ask," Charles finally said to the

the doctors not to

saved, it was the result of their own

it would be Dahlia's karma

strings, call in specialists, and move heaven

two didn't deserve

after hanging up, his phone

was Dahlia, borrowing someone else's

her beg,

surgery-how Eve had also called him again and again,

well it

put his

in utter