The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 540

At the moment the knife came at her, Dahlia didn't close her eyes. She looked straight at Charles.

There was a flash of triumphant satisfaction in her gaze.

Charles really had raised his hand against her.

She had destroyed the man she loved most, right before her death.

But deep in her eyes, there was also an agonizing pain—bone-deep, soul-tearing.

The man she loved with all her heart truly hated her.

Hated her enough to wish her dead.

Amidst the tangled emotions, the pain she expected never arrived.

The knife was aimed at her heart, but just as it touched her chest, it stopped.

Dahlia's eyes lit up with a desperate hope, and she blurted out, almost against her will, "Charles, you can't do it, can you?"

"There's still a place for me in your heart, isn't there?"

A cold, bitter laugh escaped Charles.

He looked at Dahlia, his expression icy enough to freeze her soul. He changed the direction of the dagger, pressing it against one of her many wounds. "I just don't want to dirty my own hands."

She wanted to drag him to hell with her-did she really think she deserved that?

He did wish he could tear Dahlia apart, piece by piece.

But for Dahlia, to stain his own soul wasn't worth it.

Death would be too easy for her.

your tricks won't work on me.

personally see to it you

she would live, Dahlia visibly

is truly unafraid

meticulous and self-serving as

love had

hadn't been wealthy and powerful, she never would

expression

thought prison was her escape

she know, it would be the start of

death-until the memory of Charlie and his

police, having received Charles's call, arrived at the

released from

was free, her wrists were cuffed. "Dahlia, you are under arrest for

was placed in the

the police came to

Jenkins," the officer said,

a day?~~ Let him attend

My people will

won't

escape."

rarely makes exceptions for

as good as

the officers to let

Eventually, the police relented.

a couple of Charles's bodyguards and two officers, Wesley was allowed to go to the

saw Sandy

seeing Sandy's battered body, Wesley broke

that he'd gone

body to the

the cremation, Wesley held Sandy's ashes and let Charles's men drive him back to