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

Chapter 80

I never thought I'd see Pax again.

But fate, it seemed, had a cruel sense of humor.

Two years later, on another Christmas Eve, as Berlin slipped into wintertime, I found myself walking through streets dusted in the season's first snowfall. The golden glow of streetlamps flickered against frost-coated windows, the world outside hushed and serene.

Inside the lab, however, serenity was the last thing on our professor's mind.

"This one's going to be a handful," she muttered, rubbing her temples in exasperation.

Her frustration was so uncharacteristic that Erike and I exchanged amused glances.

"What's the problem, Professor?" Erike asked, barely suppressing a grin.

"A hard case," she sighed. "Connections. Family money. One of those. Can't be fired, hard to manage-what a headache."

Then, as if resigning herself to fate, she looked between the two of us.

"So? Which one of you is going to mentor him?"

A man, then.

I instinctively took a full step back.

"Erike you do it." I shook my head with mock solemnity.

"I'd hate for her to fall helplessly in love with me."

A voice came from behind me.

A voice I hadn't heard in two years.

"Cecilia."

I stilled.

moment, I thought

I turned, there

Pax Brown.

Standing in our lab.

night, he officially joined

that followed he shattered

off

an expensive sensor,

to him and, for the first time in

should just

Pax froze.

a second, he

eyes

voice raw. "Does this mean

had been waiting for this moment longer than he could

me he had meant every word he'd

had done as he

since

had never been the real problem, had

grown

had spent his whole life by her side, buying her gifts. Picking her up

of night.

place, maybe I would have

I shook my head.

asking me this question means you

at his sides-like he wanted to reach

could, Huaiyu stepped forward, casually positioning

Pax's breathing turned uneven.

His voice was barely above