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."

child, watching her grow up

cutthroat Rochette family, where weakness meant you were tossed aside. Sickly from the start, she'd been sent away by the lady of

always been gentle, kind to the drivers and housekeepers, never letting her

after a successful surgery, she finally got

her. But then, something changed-almost overnight, Ms. Sena seemed like a different person. Her moods swung wildly, her expression often clouded over

family affairs before. Yet here she was, taking in the Rochette family's

the driver thought maybe she was just

seeing Ms. Sena nearly choke the little

Sena might have acted out of empathy. The new Ms.

taught him that lesson-every time

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

suddenly soft

...

bundle of

arranged a car, and she and Charles

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

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

than to bring her back, but the dead don't just show up out of nowhere in a foreign

searched mostly to keep Evelyn from