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?"

voice was sharper now, laced

you tell

"Where are you going?"

rapid-fire, one after another, pressing, demanding, like he could pull the answers from me before I had the chance to evade

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

I— I

quiet

"It's fine."

voice light, even. "I just hadn't gotten around

anything, a flicker of unease crossed his features, his

I lowered my lashes.

Two more days.

didn't want to

get caught in another cycle of conversations

slowly and

It didn't make sense for me to stay here

a second,

his posture eased. His shoulders relaxed just

Relief.

in his mind, that

trying to erase

natural step

murmured, nodding as if this version of events fit neatly into the reality he had constructed. And then, without hesitation, "Then move

in going through

head. "No need. I finished

as if he wanted to argue, but I didn't give him

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