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?!"

could she have cancer? She had only recently been released

from

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

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

not noticing the figure on the bed, and coldly

assistant bit his lip, ultimately deciding against revealing

to the bedside, covered Aurelia's face with a white sheet,

donor...

slightly in surprise, but

compensate her family generously, then," he said

though his heart was a jumble of

cold because he believed the

But this was Aurelia.

woman he had once loved deeply, the woman he had

began, wanting to say more, but Nolan had already turned to leave, leaving

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

sheet-covered form, feeling an

Aurelia's death meant there would be no more obstacles to Nolan and Evangeline's