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

Chapter 94

That night, both families were wide awake, dealing with the fallout.

The Wrights pushed for damage control. After all, every powerful family had skeletons in their closets. Jenna's mother-who'd personally "handled" several of her husband's affairs over the years-downplayed her daughter's actions as "just being too passionate."

"She's already lost her baby," Mrs. Wright argued. "And after what Elijah did to her, she might never have children. Hasn't she suffered enough?"

Meanwhile, the Phillips family demanded an immediate divorce. They refused to keep a killer in the family, no matter how well-connected she was.

As the families argued behind closed doors, police officers broke in and arrested Jenna in front of everyone.

By morning, the scandal dominated social media. The golden couple had imploded spectacularly: wife in jail, husband in the hospital.

While both families scrambled to control the narrative, Elijah couldn't care less about any of it. His sole focus was finding Gloria and making things right.

remained a ghost. His investigators

respect in any room now lay in bed staring at

grasp how catastrophically wrong he'd been. He had become the monster who drove someone who genuinely loved

desperate face, heard her begging voice echoing in his

had he responded? With cold dismissal. With stubborn disbelief. With cruel

blow. He remembered how she used to ambush him whenever he came home,

around, pretending to complain. His friends would tease that Gloria seemed less like a family friend's daughter and more like

there was something more between them.

heart had always fixated on Jenna. From the moment he first saw her, he'd

in him,

found himself drawn to her room like a magnet. Everything remained exactly as she'd left it, as if she might jump out at any moment with that smile that lit up her

before finally stepping inside. He didn't disturb anything, just traced a slow path around the