After the Last Tear: Rising from the Ashes of a Broken Marriage By Cassila K

Chapter 10

At the last second, Alistair turned back around.

Something made his heart pound unexpectedly, but the hallway was already

empty.

That feeling of panic transported him back to years ago, to the year Sophia died. They'd been fighting over something trivial when her call came through. He'd assumed she was calling to apologize, and was about to smirk when he heard her fading voice instead.

"Alistair," she'd whispered, "I will die."He frantically asked where she was. The answer: the hospital.

He'd sprinted there only to find Sophia on the operating table, covered in blood. She was died. She'd left him alone, never to return.

After that, his every girlfriend is resembled Sophia in some way, then dumping them the moment he noticed their differences. Until he married Elaine.

his affairs, to clean up

now,

no reason he could name, he remembered what

want

could be so

to reality. Vivian looked

his hand on her slightly swollen belly,

panic, he buried his emotions and told himself it was probably just anxiety about whether the baby would

to her obedience during their three years of marriage. They'd never even had a real fight. This

smooth things over with

Vivian for

and off, but no messages from Elaine