The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 646

"Charles, go ahead-kill me! But you better know, if I die, that little brat Charlie's coming with me. Do you have the guts?"

Luna's voice was rough, every word laced with poison, like a snake tasting the air.

A storm broke loose in Charles's eyes, an explosion of fury that seemed to freeze the already icy air of the cellar.

Suddenly, he lunged forward, his hand snapping around Luna's throat, fingers digging in like iron clamps.

She choked out a strangled gasp her smugness vanished, wiped away by raw terror as she realized she couldn't breathe.

Charles's knuckles stood out, white and unyielding, his grip merciless and absolute.

The air was gone in a heartbeat.

Luna's eyes bulged, bloodshot and wild, locked on Charles's face-so close, so cold, so merciless he could have been the devil himself.

Her face turned from red to a horrifying shade of purple. The veins at her temples and along her neck bulged, ready to burst.

Pain wracked her body, making her convulse uncontrollably, flopping on the filthy floor like a fish out of water.

She was suffocating.

Death's shadow closed in, cold and heavy.

depths of Luna's oxygen-starved eyes, there still burned a twisted,

she afraid to

north, the memory of fighting for her life on the operating table-she

she

Charles wouldn't dare

owed that little bastard Charlie too much because of Sandy. If Luna died and took Charlie with her,

splinter of guilt was

her hands, Luna knew Charles would never risk her

was the last

the waves of suffocation washed over her, no matter how terror

This pain-

She could take it.

played out in the dead air of

as Luna's pupils were about to go blank, just as her mind was slipping

Charles let go.

crashed to the filthy, freezing ground, collapsing like a puppet with its

cut.

fire, and she broke

up on the floor, tears and snot and spit smeared across her face, she

coughing finally eased,

blurred with tears, and stared at