The Day Our Promise Breaks (Charles and Evelyn) novel Chapter 286

Never being able to walk again, stuck in a wheelchair for life—how could she possibly wrap her head around that?!

"Doctor! Where's the doctor?!"

Dahlia was losing it, frantically pressing the call button and yelling her head off like she’d completely lost her mind.

The doctor rushed in, and Dahlia grabbed his arm, all but shouting, "What kind of treatment is this? Why can't I feel my legs?"

The doctor, who had seen his fair share of hysterical patients, spoke in a soothing tone, "Please, Miss, try to stay calm."

He'd been in this line of work long enough to have seen plenty of cases like Dahlia's—people who couldn't come to terms with being unable to walk after an accident, losing it completely.

But Dahlia wasn’t having any of it. She yanked him closer by the collar, her voice dripping with anger.

"Calm? How do you expect me to be calm? I can't feel my legs at all!"

"You want me to calm down? I can't! Fix this, now! Do you hear me? Or you're out of this hospital!"

The doctor frowned at her threat, gently pulling her hands off and stepping back. "Miss, you fell from a significant height and injured your spinal nerves. I've done all I can."

"What do you mean, 'all you can'?"

Dahlia's eyes were wide with rage.

“Don’t you get it?” a voice chimed in sarcastically from the side, belonging to a woman who had just slapped Dahlia twice. “The doc means you’re paralyzed and will spend your life in a chair.”

There was zero sympathy in her tone. She looked at Dahlia with disdain, like karma was finally catching up to her.

The phrase "spend your life in a wheelchair" echoed in Dahlia's mind.

Suddenly, she remembered how she had pushed Evelyn's buttons the night before. Evelyn, at her wit’s end, had shouted, "Dahlia, what goes around comes around. You'll get what's coming to you!"

No!

What retribution? She was lucky, wasn't she?

Years ago, before she and her mom left town after her mom remarried, she had swiped a beautiful locket from a girl named Debbie.

She had kept it with her all this time.