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

then, hurried footsteps echoed from the end of the

voice. "Evangeline's out of emergency care now, thanks to that one's

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

swept over the donation room, seemingly not noticing the figure on the bed, and coldly prompted, "What is it? Is

assistant bit his lip, ultimately deciding against revealing the

Aurelia's face with a white sheet, then

the donor... has

eyebrows lifting slightly in surprise, but he quickly

her family

heart was a jumble of conflicting

he believed the deceased was just

But this was Aurelia.

he had once loved deeply, the

say more, but Nolan had already turned to leave, leaving only

stood rooted to the spot, watching silently as Nolan's

looked down at Aurelia's sheet-covered form, feeling an indescribable

meant there would be no more obstacles to