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

Chapter 71

I hesitated for a moment, fingers hovering over the keyboard before finally typing my reply.

"He's nothing."

A petty response, perhaps. But at that moment, it felt fitting.

Because if I were being honest-truly, painfully honest-Pax had been good to

me in almost every way.

Attentive, thoughtful, the kind of person who remembered the little things.

Except for one.

He never let me look at his phone.

your birthday. The pinned post on my Instagram

hear his voice, laced with that familiar blend of amusement and indulgence, as if my suspicions were nothing

would catch the tip of my nose, giving it a playful

do you need to trust

words to argue, before I could push further, he would lean in his lips brushing against mine in a way that

"Absolute possession, relative freedom-deal?"

my eyes at the way he phrased it, finding it just a little too poetic, a

in the end, I had

a relationship

And yet-

that from the very beginning, everything between us had been built on

me

Nina could use

deeper into the bed,