The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 636

The garden lights slipped through the heavy curtains, cutting harsh shadows across Luna's face.

She was like a viper lying in wait beneath the rocks, silent and deadly, her eyes fixed on the taillights of Charles's car as they split the night in two, carrying Evelyn away until both were swallowed by the darkness.

In those beautiful eyes, a storm of bitterness and resentment brewed, dark enough to devour everything in its path.

Tomorrow was the semi-final of the Sterling International Jewelry Competition.

Luna had planned this to perfection-dropping the bombshell that the kid was still alive right before the contest, just to watch Evelyn squirm. That woman she loathed with every fiber of her being.

All for this moment.

She wanted Evelyn's heart thrown into turmoil, drowning her in guilt and pain until she couldn't even hold a paintbrush steady.

Wasn't Evelyn supposed to love that kid above all else?

The child's fearful looks, the desperate cries—those were the sharpest knives, enough to tear apart whatever scraps of motherly love and resolve Evelyn had left, leaving her obsessed and frantic, incapable of thinking about anything but her child.

This was Luna's game, and she'd played every card exactly right.

But damn it-

The cold glow of her phone lit up Luna's twisted features, her fingers digging into the device.

Evelyn hadn't cracked. She was still acting calm, still getting ready for the competition.

hissed, every word poisoned.

her screen and dialed an encrypted number, her voice cold and sharp. "Target:

her eyes. "Go in and wreck that woman's hand. Understand? Wreck

sent a silent hunt into

as calm as if she'd just handled some

turned and glided soundlessly down

the soft glow of the nightlight, the

her

out, her fingers brushing Charlie's temple in a

twist and turn,

cries broke the silence,

Luna's lips-like

picked up her phone

inton

thought, called

face instantly slipping look of frantic

shrill ring of the phone tore through the quiet

Charles

in the dark. His eyes turned cold, anger

the screen-Luna's inside

heart still iced over

It was true.

really were