Chapter 545

His thin lips parted as if to speak.

But Josephine didn't give him the chance.

She'd said everything she needed to say to Charles.

If he truly felt any guilt, he ought to step away on his own.

"Brooks."

Josephine looked at Brooks, who had come to pick them up.

She hadn't wanted Brooks to accompany them to the follow-up appointment today.

When Eve was discharged from the hospital before, it was just to see how Brooks would act.

In fact, over the past year, she had seen for herself how sincere Brooks was toward Eve.

Before, with Charlie's grudge unresolved, Eve couldn't bring herself to think about her own happiness.

But now, with Charlie's revenge fulfilled, it was time for things to settle.

She and Brooks ought to make things official.

Brooks strode toward them.

In front of Charles, Josephine placed Evelyn's hand firmly into Brooks's.

Brooks didn't hesitate for a second-he took her hand and held it tight.

Evelyn didn't pull away.

sudden change

locked on Eve and Brooks's joined hands—intense, jaw clenched,

was taut, barely containing

Brooks and Evelyn, drawing a

Her stance was unambiguous.

the

Brooks. They were her

deeper in Charles's

was nothing he could do. He could only watch as Brooks led Evelyn

the spot, fists clenched at his

eyes was a fierce, undeniable love for Evelyn-and a possessiveness

right.

He was guilty.

Deeply guilty.

he could

to spend the rest of his life making it

only Eve and Ms. Josephine would give him a chance, he

...

being handled by Blake; the legal

clear, Dahlia's guilt

knew the St. Gabriel Chapel in the neighboring

to go there himself to light a candle pray

Charlie-to beg forgiveness, to

drove

chapel was bustling with

dawn, the mountain

Seven hundred and seventy

п

steps led to the chapel-a pilgrimage of devotion.

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