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.

on me. Wesley has already

your plot. I'll personally see to it you go to

would live, Dahlia visibly

is truly unafraid of

not someone as meticulous and self-serving as

her love

would have fallen for

expression with

prison was her

it would be the start of her

than death-until the

hour later, the police, having received

released from

cuffed. "Dahlia,

placed

came to arrest Wesley, Charles

Jenkins," the officer said, treating Charles with

give Wesley half a day?~~ Let

people will be

won't get

escape."

law rarely makes

word was as

the officers to let him lay his daughter to

Eventually, the police relented.

Charles's bodyguards and two officers, Wesley was

saw Sandy one

the white sheet was lifted, seeing Sandy's battered body, Wesley

regretted that

body to the

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