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.

Eve, but she also wanted Charles to experience what it felt like to wait

had waited all night

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

Everything

Charles had waited the whole night, but she felt

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

been indirectly responsible for Charlie's death, her mother

rejecting Charles and feeling

she felt only

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

But Charlie...

wound she would never heal

could never

Mom. Get

then closed her eyes and quickly drifted

either. She turned off the

infection subsided, and the flesh on

she was

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

most was people who hurt innocent children

of their own relationships.

Charles's instruction, Aiden

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about how Dahlia had cruelly caused Charlie's death, tormented Evelyn, and

day back, Dahlia endured inhuman

and beatings

came

always had hidden sewing needles. Whenever

jabbed her

slow to obey, she'd get