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

for that. Because of him, Evelyn and Mrs. Josephine

but before she could answer, Josephine

a step forward with Brooks, ready to start over, Josephine

her niece

Charlie far

could never forgive Charles for Charlie's death. But she had once loved him

how Charles would sit beside her, massaging her hands, speaking softly of their

remorse, it was clear just

love-the man she'd tucked deep inside her heart. How could

wouldn't let herself love him

his own life to save her

something in Evelyn's

would soften, that those

over Charlie's death

find herself helplessly falling for Charles all over

would only bring her more

couldn't bear to

Evelyn didn't know, and instead

...

at the mere

he decided not

back with the discharge papers, and the three of them left the hospital