The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 549

Their eyes met.

She didn't shy away from his intimate gesture, and the two of them simply gazed

at each other, locked in a silent, electric moment.

Time seemed to freeze right then.

The timestamp on the photo: 8:30 p.m., tonight.

Eve hadn't shown up for her date; she was out with Brooks instead.

Evelyn's almost blatant choice cut Charles like a knife.

...

Maplewood Estate

Josephine tossed and turned, unable to sleep.

As she rolled over once more, Evelyn switched on her bedside lamp and looked at her.

"Mom, what's wrong?"

Josephine gazed at Evelyn, then admitted, "Brooks invited you to dinner tonight. I just didn't want Charles to show up and ruin things between you and Brooks."

"So, I took your phone and texted Charles myself, inviting him out to meet you, just to get him out of the way."

"Adam passed by that spot at eleven. I asked him, and he said Charles was still there waiting for you."

Josephine paused, letting out a soft sigh.

she didn't want Charles interfering with Brooks and Eve, but

knowing he had waited all night left her with

In the past five years, how many nights did Charlie and I wait for him for nothing? He waited one night—what's

to feel bad. Everything Charles went through tonight,

had waited the whole night, but

deep down, always valued the original marriage most. They were softer

hadn't been indirectly responsible for Charlie's death, her mother probably would have

was conflicted, torn between rejecting Charles and feeling sorry

Charles, she felt only

love-she'd never truly hated him for that. She had given

But Charlie...

she would never heal

could never forgive

Mom.

her eyes and quickly

didn't dwell on it either. She turned

Her injuries slowly healed, the infection subsided, and

was stable, she was sent back to

a balcony by her husband's mistress. In a fit of rage, she'd murdered both her husband and the other

was

of their own relationships.

instruction, Aiden

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the queen bee everything about how Dahlia had cruelly caused Charlie's

her very first day back, Dahlia endured inhuman

beatings became

water came

the inmates always had hidden sewing

jabbed her

slow to obey, she'd get stabbed,