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 tangle of emotions as

tried to claim her as a

had been nothing

he wanted, he'd lost control and nearly forced himself

fiber

so adamantly against having her as his sister was now, today, the

past the crowd to the man

over a month, and

poor, but the way he looked at her was indescribably

of the ballroom, she was the only one

all he

happened in

Mrs. Robinson

Evelyn's background tomake

against his father's

man's protests, he rushed back to the

in time to hear Charles's

years ago, when Charles had tried to force Evelyn

the Jenkins family. Wasn't that the same as admitting

go, once and for

eyes met across the

side in a protective stance, and grasped her hand "Mother, I'll say it again-I will marry no one

your permission. I'm letting you

meaning was clear: her