The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 643

Charles looked up at Francis, desperate. "Francis, I'm begging you please! Take care of Charlie. No matter what, just keep her stable until I get back!"

Francis nodded, face set and serious. "You have my word. I'll do everything I can."

He flicked a glance at Q, who immediately rushed off to get the car ready.

"Thank you!" Charles called, wasting no more time. He whipped around, his movement cutting through the air, and charged out the door.

He didn't even dare glance back at his daughter, still fighting for her life in that hospital room. He was already gone, a blur at the end of the hallway, like an arrow let loose.

Every heartbeat that passed was another blow to Charlie's fragile lifeline.

...

The cell was damp and freezing, the stench of mold thick in the air.

By Charles's order, Luna was thrown in here, waist-deep in filthy water. Her once- perfect hair hung in messy, wet clumps, and her expensive clothes clung to her, ruined and pathetic.

But her eyes-her eyes were icy, filled with poison and a wild, almost crazed certainty.

The heavy iron door slammed open. Charles stood in the doorway.

Luna's lips curled into a twisted, triumphant smile. There was no fear in her eyes -only dark satisfaction.

bother to

the little brat away from her, she knew he'd figured everything out. If he

him to dig up the evidence she'd destroyed so soon. But did it really matter?

choice now but to play

"Charles,

finally made it!" Her How's your precious dat $ raw but gloating.

voice

Is

hanging by a thread?"

she was the one

hand was ruined. The brat was

under

like she'd read in those files, this man-no matter how hard he tried-would always

since she'd

with thoughts that weren't hers. She'd

read, the more she felt it the tangled love and hate Dahlia had for Charles, the burning

that

little,

She became Dahlia.

Cipoletti family, and how she knew Evelyn was