The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 559

She didn't realize the country she was heading to wasn't her dream destination at all.

It was somewhere far worse.

A place that could only be described as hell on earth.

Evelyn heard the news: Dahlia had arranged her own passage, and her destination was the notorious northern border.

Images flashed through Evelyn's mind-news stories and documentaries about what happened to people who fell for those kinds of traps. The horrors they endured.

Evelyn's expression softened considerably.

"This won't come back to bite you, will it?"

Brooks quickly reassured her. "No, she found those people on her own. It has nothing to do with me."

He shared the same thoughts as Charles: for all the harm Dahlia had done, a quick end would be too easy. They wanted her to suffer, to truly regret every choice she'd made.

Even if she was caught and brought back, her so-called mental illness would keep her out of prison. The justice system here just didn't have a way to deal with people like her.

But a place like that? That was fitting punishment for someone like Dahlia.

Only then did Evelyn feel relieved.

Brooks, remembering the fire last night, thought of Charles. He turned to Evelyn, his tone gentle. "Evelyn, Charles is at this hospital too. Would you like me to go with you to see him?"

arrived in time-if he hadn't rushed in without hesitation, putting his own life on the line-Eve and Mrs. Josephine wouldn't be safe and

Because of him, Evelyn and

up at Brooks in surprise, but before she could answer, Josephine spoke up.

Brooks' intentions. But after watching Evelyn finally take a step forward with Brooks, ready to start over, Josephine didn't want anything to

knew her niece all too

cared about Charlie

never forgive Charles for Charlie's death. But she

was in a coma, how Charles would sit beside her,

every word of Charles's remorse, it was clear

first love-the man she'd tucked deep inside her

simply wouldn't let herself love him

Charles had risked his own life to

stir something

she feared Evelyn would soften, that those feelings

Charlie's death hadn't

Evelyn might find herself helplessly

bring

couldn't bear to see that

Evelyn didn't know, and instead stayed with

...

Evelyn's face fall at the mere mention

he decided not

and