The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 570

Chapter 570

The distance between them closed, inch by inch.

Their breaths tangled together, heavy and warm.

But just before his lips met Evelyn's, Brooks stopped himself, holding back.

He gazed down at the softness so close he could nearly taste it.

Brooks' breathing lost its rhythm.

His Adam's apple bobbed involuntarily, tension thrumming through him.

A storm of emotions flickered in his eyes.

But in the end, the kiss landed gently on Evelyn's forehead-a feather-light touch.

A whisper of a kiss.

Gone before it could even begin.

It wasn't that Brooks didn't desire Evelyn.

On the contrary, he ached to be close to her.

But he wanted their next step-any deeper intimacy-to happen when Evelyn was fully awake, fully aware.

Halfway through the drive, rain began to fall, tapping insistently against the windows.

Evelyn slept on, undisturbed by the storm outside.

When the car finally stopped in front of Evelyn's new place, Brooks glanced over and saw she was still sound asleep.

He signaled for the driver to leave them alone.

He didn't wake her.

Sitting so still for so long, his legs prickled with uncomfortable numbness, but he didn't move, not wanting to disturb her.

picked up his tablet, slipped on his Bluetooth earpiece, and

over at Evelyn, his gaze soft, simply

At the hospital

to check

brought the latest updates about Dahlia from the

little over

barely boarded the boat when she realized something was wrong. The

sent

skin

awaited her if

felt at escaping

sea, there

but her body, and used it to please

hardly going to say no-Dahlia had been their distraction, their plaything, from

played along, did

keep them satisfied, hoping

to the northern border.

not to deliver

they'd already made a

go would mean crossing

stupid they knew which side their

Dahlia was passed along, from one man to the next,

arrived, she was shoved into

she welcomed every customer, doing what she did best

got through a brutal month this way, always

out of a

who could help her

sights on one

her best act,

And finally, it worked.

for her, enough to risk everything and

moment she stepped out of that compound, Dahlia felt, for

long as she was alive and free,

the compound

had set things up

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