The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 539

He didn't care whether she lived or died.

All he cared about was how to keep her conscious, her body barely holding on, so Wesley could torment her for as long as possible.

"Ahhh!!"

Dahlia screamed from the depths of her throat, the pain making her whole body shudder uncontrollably.

Wesley and Charles-neither of them ever intended for her to walk out of here alive tonight.

Faced with being cut to pieces like this, dying in agony, she'd rather go to prison.

As long as it wasn't the death penalty, as long as she was alive, there was always a chance for her sentence to be commuted, a chance to walk free someday.

But tonight, there was no escaping death.

Through a blur of tears, Dahlia stared at Charles's retreating back.

Once she was dead, that little brat Charlie's grudge would finally be avenged.

be free to openly

felt about Charles-if he ever came at her with the full force of his affection, could she possibly resist? After loving him for

those years?

Charles and Evelyn to pick up the shattered pieces and start over, left Dahlia furious enough

bitch Evelyn wasn't going to get

She shouted at Charles's back, her voice trembling with

of father are you? What kind of grandson? You're not

least Wesley knows how to avenge his daughter, but you-?" Dahlia spat, her voice cracking. "You're a disgrace as a

that, Charles's footsteps halted,

his gaze cutting through her. Suddenly, he closed the distance between them, his hand clamping around her jaw, his eyes cold and deadly. "Was it you?

right!" Dahlia nodded without hesitation, her

Charles down with her?

offices of Jenkins Enterprises, when he'd

her, deep down. The only thing holding him back was his respect for the law-he'd never laid a hand on

to let

she'd

a murderer, there'd never be a future for

neither could that

was me! I