The Day Our Promise Breaks

Chapter 648

She didn't even get close enough to touch him.

Charles sidestepped smoothly, dodging her outstretched hand.

Luna hit the ground hard. This time, she couldn't muster the strength to get up.

"Charles..." Her voice was weak as she lifted her hand, silently begging him to help her.

Charles shot Q a look.

Q stepped up, his big hand gripping Luna's shoulder as he hauled her to her feet.

Luna bristled, but she didn't make a scene over something so petty.

It didn't matter. Charles could only stall for a day at most. No matter how much he tried to keep away, he'd end up doing whatever it took to save that little brat— even if it meant getting close to her.

Just the thought of finally being with Charles, tasting something Dahlia had obsessed over for years and never gotten, sent a secret shiver of delight through her.

Charles didn't ride in the same car as Luna.

He traveled with his bodyguards and Francis's men, a line of cars weaving back to the villa.

Luna didn't try any tricks on the way.

Back at the villa, she went straight to her bedroom. In her walk-in closet, she opened a hidden compartment in her jewelry box and pulled out a single pill. She handed it to Charles.

it without a word

guided Luna back to the

left, he gave Q another

send Luna back to the water cell,

room, every corner-nothing. Not a single trace of another

that one pill, stashed away where no one would think to look- under a

their earlier searches turned

dumped back into

even

hours. Whatever she had to endure, it would be over soon

her lashes lowered, eyes dark with

couldn't wait to see Charles give that so-called antidote to

exactly what it was. Not a cure

a while, make the brat seem better, more awake, like she

the pill was a slow, hidden poison-deadlier

shadow, making the original poison dig in deeper, making

Charlie took, the stronger the poison grew, right down to

back-ten,

Charles had no clue.

brief recovery-a little color in her cheeks, a clear

that moment, the first person Aurora would want to see, the one she'd cling

for her

with Charlie