The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 618

"Mom..."

Even in her unconscious state, Charlie kept whispering for her mother.

The woman glanced over at Charlie's thin, fragile form, her eyes colder than ice as she reached for the girl's neck.

Her fingers tightened slowly, squeezing the air from Charlie's throat, little by little.

Charlie's breath caught, her pale face turning a bluish purple as she struggled for air.

But just as the darkness started closing in, the woman let go.

No, strangling Charlie here would be far too easy on Charles and Evelyn.

Now that Charlie had lost her memory, there were better ways-crueler ways-to make Charles and Evelyn really suffer.

"Drive," the woman ordered, her gaze finally leaving Charles and Evelyn and settling on the driver.

"Yes, Ms. Sena."

her since she was a child, watching her grow up and taking her wherever

Sickly from the start, she'd

Sena had always been gentle, kind to the drivers and

ago, after a successful surgery, she

have been happy for her. But then, something changed-almost overnight, Ms. Sena seemed like a different person. Her moods swung wildly,

had never meddled in family affairs before. Yet here she

thought maybe

seeing Ms. Sena nearly choke the little girl to death, he

out of empathy. The new

three months had taught him that lesson-every time he'd spoken out of

seat, the woman's demeanor flipped again as she cradled Charlie, who was

patted the girl's back, voice suddenly soft and

...

was a bundle of nerves, unable

and she and Charles climbed

Charles's request, the driver took it slow, winding through

out the windows, searching each block, but Charles didn't

to bring her back, but the dead don't

searched mostly to keep Evelyn from falling