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

Chapter 74

Chapter 74

"Huh?"

The girl's gaze flickered toward Pax, her brows knitting together in momentary confusion.

"Wait... isn't this Your husband?"

Pax's lips quirked up slightly, amusement flickering in his dark eyes.

The title-husband-seemed to entertain him, as if he had already claimed his

place beside me, as if none of the past days had unraveled us at all.

But then, realization dawned, and his attention shifted to me. His expression turned questioning, waiting for an explanation.

"Who are they?"

The girl, oblivious to the tension that had suddenly thickened the air, smiled brightly.

"Oh! Your girlfriend is renting the apartment to us!" she said cheerfully, her voice carrying an innocence that twisted something inside my chest. "I figured she was cleaning up all on her own, so we thought we'd drop by and help."

She lifted the bags in her hands—cleaning supplies, neatly packed, a gesture of goodwill.

A small kindness. A harmless act.

"Renting it out?"

The lightness in Pax's features vanished in an instant. His brows drew together, his body tensing beside me.

"Cecilia... you're moving?"

now, laced

didn't you tell

"Where are you going?"

pull the answers from me before

Realizing she had said too much, she shot me an uncertain glance, her fingers tightening around the handles of the bags

I— I

smiled, quiet

"It's fine."

turned to Pax, my voice light, even. "I just hadn't gotten around

soften. If anything, a flicker of unease crossed his features, his

I lowered my lashes.

Two more days.

want to

in another cycle of conversations that

I exhaled slowly and

up. It didn't make sense for me

a second, Pax

something in his posture eased. His shoulders relaxed just slightly, and I saw

Relief.

mind, that was all

to

step in

of events fit neatly into the reality he had constructed. And then, without hesitation,

point in going through

"No need.

he wanted to argue, but

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