The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 566

It was already one in the morning.

Evelyn had turned off the lights and gone to bed at eleven, but for two long hours, sleep had eluded her. She hadn't suffered from insomnia in ages, but tonight, she lay awake in the darkness, eyes open.

She sat up, pulled open her nightstand drawer, and found the half-finished bottle of melatonin she'd been using.

Just as she was about to take some, her phone-resting on the nightstand-lit up with an incoming call.

She hadn't saved Aiden's number, so she didn't know who it was. But somehow, as if she knew, Evelyn reached for her phone and answered. "Hello?"

"Ms. Evelyn, it's Aiden."

Aiden stood outside the hospital room, watching through the glass as Charles suffered on the bed, wracked with a fever that wouldn't break. His voice was hoarse. "Mr. Jenkins is in a bad way. He was barely conscious on the drive back to the hospital, and his fever hasn't gone down despite everything the doctors have tried."

"Ms. Evelyn, could you come see Mr. Jenkins...?"

"I'm not a doctor. I can't help him."

Evelyn's grip tightened around her phone, but her voice remained icy.

"Ms. Evelyn, I know you resent Mr. Jenkins. I know it's hard to forgive what he did

to you and Miss Josephine," Aiden pleaded, his voice cracking. "But he's in real danger. If his fever doesn't break tonight, he could lose his leg..."

"Mr. Jenkins is such a proud man-if he loses his left leg..."

Aiden couldn't finish, his throat tight with emotion.

Charles's side for years, loyal to a

crisis, Charles had worked himself to the bone, barely sleeping, pushing himself until he'd saved the company. He'd sacrificed everything,

Charles's drive was all

stomach bleeding. Charles, pale and weak in the hospital bed, had held a small silver locket in his hand, gazing at it with

had played a

to protect the

hurt the most. When Charles learned the

the damage Charles had done to

by and do nothing while Charles suffered like

he did he risked his life to save you and Ms. Josephine-can you come see him, just this once?" "Since he fell unconscious, all he's done

phone tightened, but she didn't

came from her bedroom

turmoil in her eyes. Josephine saw it

Aiden, whose voice was on the verge of collapse, she said, "Eve will be there soon." Then

in disbelief. She hadn't expected Josephine to agree for

Charles how she'd always hoped Evelyn could move on,

only said,

of us. He's in

now-going

is the right thing

ve

Afterwards, whatever happens, you'll

have no regrets."

Josephine pulled out clothes for Evelyn, her eyes soft

always knows her