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.

she remained a ghost. His investigators returned with nothing each

commanded respect in any room now lay in bed staring at walls, hollow-eyed

been. He had become the monster who drove someone who genuinely loved him straight into

desperate

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

empty house, the silence hit him like a physical blow. He remembered how she used to ambush him whenever he came home,

and carry her around, pretending to complain. His friends would tease that Gloria seemed less like a

inevitably ask if there was something more between them. His answer was always absolutely

making him see her almost as a kid, his heart had always fixated on Jenna. From the

Gloria occasionally stirred in him, he'd pushed away without

he 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

He didn't disturb anything, just traced a slow path around the