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

Chapter 116

Nolan's pupils contracted sharply, his fingers involuntarily clenching.

The classmate went on, "Then Evangeline showed up, and get this-Aurelia actually pushed you into her arms and told her to take the credit for saving you. I couldn't wrap my head around it. If Aurelia was really the monster everyone made her out to be, why the hell would she risk her life to save yours? And then why give someone else the glory?"

Nolan's mind flashed back to that night.

He remembered waking up with Evangeline by his bedside, her eyes filled with

concern.

She had told him she had risked her life to save him from the fire. And he had never once questioned it.

"You're certain... it was Aurelia who saved me?" Nolan's voice was rough.

The classmate nodded firmly. "I saw it with my own eyes. There's no mistake."

Nolan's heart sank as unbidden images of Aurelia's pale face appeared in his mind.

The scars on her back, her cold responses, her unflinching admission of her "cruelty"... everything suddenly connected in this moment.

"Why would she do that?" Nolan asked quietly, seemingly asking himself as much as the person who had already vanished from his life.

The classmate shook his head. "I don't know. But I've always felt that Aurelia might not be as worse as everyone made her out to be."

a storm

he had deliberately suppressed, all the memories he had forcibly locked away, came rushing

remembered Aurelia's smile, her tears, her

malicious, why would she

what's wrong? What

the classmate had left that Evangeline's voice

flatly, "Nothing. Let's go home." Evangeline nodded, taking his arm, her sweet smile

never

Nolan stood alone by the window, gazing at

glass of untouched wine in his hand. The classmate's

Nolan sat alone in his study,

to her future self, which he had secretly taken from the

were worn, as if bearing the weight of too many years. His fingertips trembled slightly as

each stroke seemingly etched into his

as his gaze fell

ten years

letter, I hope you still remember Nolan Creed. That boy who always wore a serious expression, yet treated you with such tenderness. The person you once vowed to love for a

still together? If so, does he still

as he used

u'i

wedding, to have all the