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.

the depths of Luna's oxygen-starved eyes, there still

afraid

near-death in a hellhole up north, the memory of fighting for her life on the operating

right now, she was betting

wouldn't dare let

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

alive, that splinter of guilt

Charlie's fate in her hands, Luna knew Charles would never

last

matter how terror chewed through her nerves, she bit down hard,

This pain-

She could take it.

played out in the dead air

as Luna's pupils were about to go blank, just

Charles let go.

filthy, freezing ground,

cut.

rushed into her lungs, burning like fire, and she broke into a fit of coughing that racked her whole

snot and spit smeared across her face, she shook helplessly.

seemed to pass before the coughing finally

her head up, vision blurred with tears,