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

Chapter 102

Elijah recalled how, when Gloria still had feelings for him, she would daydream about their future kids.

She'd said if they had a daughter, she'd spoil her rotten-make her the happiest little girl on the planet.

If they had a son, she'd raise him to be just as driven and successful as Elijah.

Her eyes would sparkle talking about these what-ifs. She'd even sketched dozens of imagined portraits of these hypothetical children.

The moment she'd handed him those drawings, he'd torn them up and tossed the pieces into the fireplace without a second thought.

He'd told her, with ice in his voice, that he might have children someday, but certainly not with her.

He'd told her to quit wasting time on childish fantasies.

Now, the irony hit him like a physical pain. Back then, she'd been the one clinging

to his arm, sharing her dreams. Now he was the one haunted by visions of a life

with her that could never happen.

A knock interrupted his brooding.

"Sir, your driver's waiting."

from

he'd say when he finally saw Gloria and her baby. Without warning, blinding high beams flooded the

sickening impact. The collision threw Elijah

slicing into his exposed

BOOM!

commercial truck, went airborne before crashing back to the pavement with crushing

multiple wounds, but strangely, Elijah felt nothing just a

meet the little girl who

around him-screaming bystanders, approaching sirens-began to fade as darkness closed in. Soon,

hospital, the Phillips family huddled outside the OR, tension written across

morning light filtered through the windows,

the exhausted surgeon, desperate

them everything before

were just the beginning of

extreme risks. Their only option was to wait and hope the bleeding would resolve

then, Elijah would remain unresponsive-essentially

staggered backward as if

again, it cracked with

security replied carefully: "The truck driver

Spit it

seasoned security

traced this back to its source. It was the Wright