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.

searching, careful, trying to gauge where I stood,

trust me

handle everything.

I stayed quiet.

was resisting the urge to reach

"I booked

A pause.

smiled, cutting him off before he

"Sure."

he hadn't expected me to agree so

I saw it—the way his shoulders loosened, the quiet breath

in his mind,

me

back to the way they

he said, like he had done a hundred times

I didn't protest.

by side, though the space between us felt wider than

just transfer the lease," Pax said casually, his voice taking on that familiar

in this cramped place anymore-you know I have

it lightly, his touch

a time when those words would have been the sweetest thing I

only made

entire day had

way-no way he hadn't noticed

decided it wasn't