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."

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

aside. Sickly from the start, she'd been sent away by the lady of the house, raised far from the

drivers and housekeepers,

ago, after a successful surgery, she finally

Ms. Sena seemed like a different person. Her

had never meddled in family affairs before. Yet here she

thought maybe she was just being

nearly choke the little girl to death,

old Ms. Sena might have acted out of empathy. The new Ms. Sena? She

The last three months had taught him that lesson-every time he'd

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

back, voice suddenly soft and

...

a bundle of nerves, unable to

she and Charles climbed

slow, winding through

block, but Charles didn't

bring her back, but the dead don't just show up out of nowhere

to keep