The Day Our Promise Breaks (Charles and Evelyn) novel Chapter 649

Charles sat at Charlie’s bedside, his heart twisting with pain as he watched his daughter suffer.

Her face was pale, twisted in agony, and every soft moan felt like a blade carving into him. In his hand, he clutched a tiny, dark red pill he’d found hidden in a secret compartment of Luna’s jewelry box. The pill was no bigger than a grain of rice, and his fingertips were cold as ice.

If he gave Charlie the pill, it would take her pain away.

But he couldn’t trust Luna.

With all the malice she’d shown to Eve and Charlie, there was no way he believed she actually wanted to save Charlie.

“Charles, did you get the antidote?” Andrew’s voice broke the silence. He’d rushed in all the way from the capital, ignoring his own exhaustion to join the estate’s medical team, working nonstop to help find a way to save Charlie.

The moment he heard Charles was back, he’d come out of the lab in a hurry.

“Yes,” Charles replied.

But he didn’t do what Luna expected. He didn’t give the pill to Charlie. Instead, he handed it to Andrew.

“Andrew, analyze it now. I want the most accurate results, no mistakes.”

There was a sharp urgency in Charles’s voice that allowed no argument.

Andrew had always trusted Charles’s judgment and wasted no time. He grabbed the pill and hurried to the lab with Francis and the rest of the medical team, firing up the best equipment and running the tests at top speed.

It didn’t take long to get the results—but what they found sent a chill through the room.

“Charles!” Andrew’s face had gone gray, his hand shaking as he held up the report. “You were right. This isn’t an antidote at all—it’s an even deadlier poison!”

He pointed to the analysis. “The main ingredient does suppress the toxins in Charlie’s body for a while, so she’d look like she’s getting better…”

“But it’s actually a slow-acting poison. While it hides the symptoms, it changes her system, making the toxin even more stubborn, more hidden, and more addictive.”

“If she ever stops, or the dose isn’t enough, the toxins will come roaring back—ten, a hundred, a thousand times worse. When that happens, the pain will be unbearable.”

“And the longer she takes it, the more it will destroy her body. In the end… no one could save her.”

Andrew’s eyes grew colder with every word.

How vicious could Luna be, to do this to a child?

Even if Charlie lived, her life would be nothing short of torture.

“Luna!” Charles slammed his fist into the wall, the impact splitting his knuckles and leaving blood on the cold surface.

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