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

Chapter 111

The assistant stood frozen at the doorway of the donation room when he heard the nurse's cry, then suddenly rushed inside.

His gaze fell on Aurelia's ashen face-once vibrant and beautiful, now bloodless and lifeless as a cold marble sculpture.

The needle still in her wrist, though blood no longer flowed. On the monitor, that flat line was painfully stark against the screen.

"Aurelia... she's dead?" he murmured, unable to comprehend the reality before him.

Though he had never been Aurelia's supporter-had even despised her—a complex wave of emotions surged through him in that moment.

He knew Aurelia had betrayed Nolan, knew she was supposedly unfaithful, but these past years, he had witnessed his boss's feelings for her firsthand.

That torment of simultaneous love and hatred, that unresolved pain-he understood it better than anyone.

Now, with Aurelia dead like this, how would Nolan react if he knew?

Panic flooded the assistant's mind as he instinctively shouted at the nurse, "Quick! Save her! Do whatever it takes to bring her back!"

The nurse shook her head gravely. "She has no breath. She already had cancer, and we've taken so much blood-she can't be revived."

"Cancer?!"

cancer. How could she have cancer? She

hurried footsteps echoed from the end of

his voice. "Evangeline's out of emergency care now, thanks to that one's blood donation. Arrange some compensation for the

Aurelia lying on the bed, then back at Nolan, momentarily at a loss

the figure on the bed,

lip, ultimately deciding against revealing the

covered Aurelia's face with a white sheet, then

the donor...

his eyebrows lifting slightly in surprise, but he

compensate her family generously, then," he said

heart was a jumble of conflicting

he believed the deceased was just some insignificant

But this was Aurelia.

loved deeply, the woman he had hated for so

leave, leaving only the cold remark "Evangeline's waiting for me. Join us after you've handled

the spot, watching silently as Nolan's figure disappeared down

Aurelia's sheet-covered form, feeling

death meant there would be no more obstacles to