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.

thought

when I turned, there he

Pax Brown.

Standing in our lab.

he officially joined

the weeks that followed he

off the equipment

the time he nearly melted an expensive sensor, I couldn't

first time in two

you should just marry

Pax froze.

he just stared

his eyes

he breathed, voice raw. "Does this mean you've

had been waiting for this

he had meant every

done as he

had long since severed

been the real problem, had

had grown up

spent his whole life by her side,

of night.

in her place, maybe I would have fallen

I shook my head.

this question means you still

his sides-like he wanted to

he could, Huaiyu stepped forward, casually positioning himself

Pax's breathing turned uneven.

His voice was