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

Chapter 66

Pax was gone.

Not just gone erased.

His things had disappeared overnight, vanishing so cleanly that if not for the faint indentation his side of the mattress still held, I might have thought he had never been here at all.

The small, suffocating apartment we had shared for the past two years now felt eerily... spacious.

I stood in the center of the room, staring at the empty space where his belongings used to be. The closet door, once barely able to close from the weight of our combined mess, now hung slightly ajar-hollow, unburdened.

Even his scent, that faint mix of cedar and citrus, was already beginning to fade.

He hadn't left a note.

No message. No half-hearted explanation scrawled on a scrap of paper.

Nothing.

Just silence.

I swallowed, exhaling slowly

So, that was it, a clean break.

A quiet, unspoken ending.

Maybe this was for the best.

This way, at least, I wasn't the one who had to walk away first.

Two days ago, I had posted a question online on Reddit:

in seven days. I haven't told my boyfriend yet. How do I

comments had

Selfish. Cruel. Heartless.

accused me of never planning a future with him, of leading him

And the worst part?

They were right.

future, I

had never truly

but my lips wouldn't move, frozen in

And yet...

I thought about it, Pax's act had never

been there, thin and almost imperceptible,

a bar when a drunk customer grabbed my wrist, pulling me

Pax had.

peeling the man's fingers off my arm, his

smooth and composed, as if confrontation was something he had been raised to

turned to me, gaze flickering

"Are you okay?"

had a chance to answer, he had taken my phone,

should have known

quiet confidence, the unconscious authority-it wasn't something a struggling college student

smiled, easy

just a scholarship kid trying to get

been wearing? Borrowed

agency needed a background actor to play a rich heir. Lucky me, huh? This is probably the nicest thing

had

help him look for more part-time jobs, thinking I