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?"

in time-if he hadn't rushed in without hesitation, putting his own life on the

for that. Because of him,

before she could answer, Josephine

Evelyn finally take a step forward

niece

cared about Charlie far too

never forgive Charles for Charlie's death. But she

was in a coma, how Charles would sit beside her, massaging her hands, speaking softly

every word of Charles's remorse, it was clear just how

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

wouldn't let herself

out that Charles had risked his own life

stir something

would soften, that

grief over Charlie's

find herself helplessly

only bring her more

to see that

Evelyn didn't know, and

...

face fall at

she withdrew, he decided

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