The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 562

Charles's words dropped like a stone in a still pond, sending ripples of shock through the room.

Had anyone else claimed Evelyn was Ms. Evelyn of the Jenkins family, no one would have believed it. But the man who spoke was Charles.

Charles-the head of the Jenkins family.

If he could declare, in a setting like this, that Evelyn was the Jenkins family's Ms. Evelyn, then it simply had to be true.

The people who had just been whispering that Evelyn wasn't good enough for Brooks immediately fell silent.

As Charles had said, when it came to family background, who could possibly say the Jenkins family's Ms. Evelyn was beneath anyone?

Mrs. Robinson found herself caught in an impossible dilemma.

She knew the truth about Charles and Evelyn, but she could hardly expose their history in front of this crowd.

That would be as good as announcing to everyone that her son was picking up Charles's cast-off lover.

Because she couldn't use that to publicly humiliate Evelyn and pressure her into leaving Brooks, she tried instead to use Evelyn's unchangeable social standing to drive her away.

But never in her wildest dreams did she expect Charles to show up out of nowhere and throw the weight of the Jenkins family behind Evelyn.

Hadn't he been the one who couldn't let Evelyn go, who clung so stubbornly to her in the past?

What on earth was he playing at now?

the only one with mixed feelings; Evelyn's heart was a

back three years, to the day when Rosa had tried to claim her as a

been nothing short of

wanted, he'd lost control and

with every fiber of her being

who had been so adamantly against having her as his sister was now, today, the one publicly

past the crowd to the man standing

in over a

had grown more pronounced, his complexion was poor, but the way he looked at her was

she

was all he

what had happened in the ballroom reached Brooks.

Mrs.

tomake things

against his father's wishes before, but now,

man's protests, he rushed back

to

through Charles's intentions three years ago, when Charles had tried to force Evelyn to

of the Jenkins family. Wasn't that the same as admitting they were siblings? Wasn't he cutting off his

go, once and for

met across the

didn't waste another second. He strode toward Evelyn, took his place at her side in a protective stance, and grasped her hand "Mother, I'll say it again-I

your permission. I'm

clear: her opposition