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?!"

He'd never heard that Aurelia had cancer. How could she have cancer? She had only recently been released from prison,

from the end of the

them, his brow furrowed, a hint of exhaustion in his voice. "Evangeline's out of emergency care now, thanks to that one's

lying on the bed, then back at

not noticing the figure on the bed,

his lip, ultimately deciding against revealing the

bedside, covered Aurelia's face with a white sheet, then

the donor...

mid-step, his eyebrows lifting slightly in surprise, but he

her family

his heart was a jumble

was so cold because he believed

But this was Aurelia.

woman he had once loved deeply, the woman he had hated for

wanting to say more, but Nolan had already turned to 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 the

Aurelia's sheet-covered form, feeling an

be no more obstacles to