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.

had been twofold: she didn't want Charles interfering with Brooks and Eve, but she also wanted

waited all night left her

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

don't have to feel bad. Everything Charles

had waited the

generation, deep down, always valued the

been indirectly responsible for Charlie's death, her mother probably would have

conflicted, torn between rejecting Charles and feeling sorry for

Charles, she

hated him for

But Charlie...

a wound she would never heal

could never

late, Mom. Get some

then closed her eyes

dwell on it either. She turned off the light and soon

healed, the infection subsided, and the flesh on her back began

she was stable, she was

daughter had been pushed off a balcony by her husband's mistress. In a fit of rage, she'd

despised most was people who hurt innocent

of their own relationships.

Charles's instruction, Aiden

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Charlie's death, tormented Evelyn, and even abused

very first day back, Dahlia endured inhuman

and beatings

came

inmates always had hidden

jabbed

was slow to obey, she'd get stabbed,