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

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

always been gentle, kind to the drivers and

a successful surgery, she

like a different person.

in family affairs before. Yet here she was,

first, the driver thought maybe she was just being

little girl to death, he realized he'd

out of empathy. The

had taught him that

flipped again as she cradled

suddenly soft and reassuring, “Shh, Mom's

...

bundle of nerves, unable to calm

hotel arranged a car, and she and Charles climbed into

it slow, winding through the streets near

searching each block, but Charles didn't really think they'd

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

to keep Evelyn from falling