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

Chapter 73

A silence stretched between us, long and heavy, thick with things unsaid.

Pax finally broke it, his voice quieter now, subdued in a way that made me wonder

if he already knew how this conversation would end.

"I didn't know she texted you."

I didn't react.

The screen in front of me was empty now-the messages erased, wiped clean, as if they had never existed.

But the password?

That was a different story.

Once, it had been my birthday.

Now, it was hers.

I watched as Pax exhaled sharply, rubbing his temple like this entire situation was nothing more than an inconvenience, an annoyance he needed to handle before moving on.

Without hesitation, he changed it back to my birthday.

"This is ridiculous," he muttered, more to himself than to me. "I'll talk to her. This won't happen again."

His tone was steady, assured, as if this was something that could be resolved with a simple conversation.

His gaze was searching, careful, trying to gauge where I

can you trust me one more

everything. I

I stayed quiet.

he was resisting

he sighed, his voice softening. "I booked a flight to

A pause.

smiled, cutting him

"Sure."

he hadn't

way his shoulders loosened, the quiet breath

his mind, this

me

things going back to the

upstairs," he said, like he had done a hundred

I didn't protest.

climbed the steps together, side by side, though the space between

the lease," Pax said casually, his voice

anymore-you know I have somewhere

his touch gentle, almost pleading. "What's mine is

when those words would have been the

only made my

entire day had

was no way-no way he hadn't

decided it wasn't important enough