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 and

back

Charles left, he gave Q

the water cell, then

every corner-nothing. Not a single trace of another

left that one pill, stashed away where no one

their earlier searches turned

was dumped back into

didn't even bother

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

her

Charles

knew exactly what it was. Not

make the brat seem better, more awake, like she was getting

a slow, hidden

would seep into Charlie's veins, clinging to her like a shadow, making the original poison dig in deeper, making her

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

pills, and the pain would come roaring back-ten, a hundred

Charles had no clue.

he'd see would be Charlie's brief recovery-a little color in her

moment, the first person Aurora would want to see,

as Charlie needed her, kept begging Charles for her "Mommy," he'd have no choice but to keep Luna

with Charlie as