The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 543

Evelyn wasn't focused on Charles's explanations.

Her mind fixated on what he'd said: Wesley had already handed over the evidence of Dahlia's crimes.

He'd told her the proof was now with the police-solid and indisputable.

This time, Dahlia wouldn't escape justice. She would finally face the law.

Charlie and Rosa, resting peacefully beneath the earth, could finally find peace.

Evelyn's emotions threatened to overwhelm her. Her lips trembled as she struggled for composure.

She bowed her head, pressing a hand to her mouth.

Tears welled up, spilling over in heavy drops.

Plop

Each tear hit the hardwood floor with a soft, heartbreaking sound.

She sobbed, silent but wracked with pain.

Ever since she'd learned Dahlia was behind Charlie's death-

She'd fought so hard to seek justice for Charlie. The road had been impossibly long.

Every memory replayed, vivid and unrelenting in her mind.

Her beloved Charlie had lain beneath the cold soil nearly three years before justice was done.

lonely nights

Charlie and Rosa, living her life untouched, Evelyn's grief choked her-she couldn't eat,

At last-

the day Dahlia got

had been right: "Justice may be slow, but it

get what's coming

doesn't come,

tears, Charles felt his

eyes filled with regret and affection, his voice husky. "Eve, I'm so

her into

Regret burned through him.

only he'd never

else,

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to Debbie, none of this would have

have hurt Eve so deeply because of a

out at Charlie-or

wouldn't have, even indirectly, caused the deaths of

Smack!

Evelyn's shoulder when Josephine stormed in and

mother bear, she shielded Evelyn behind her, glaring daggers at Charles. "What did you do this time to

hurt her enough? How could you stand to hurt

when she'd seen Evelyn

depression had improved, it had been so long since Josephine had seen her

assumed Charles was to

mother, she already carried too much guilt for what Evelyn

pain her daughter suffered cut Josephine