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."

silent, a storm

all the memories he had forcibly locked away, came rushing back

tears, her tenderness, and

malicious, why would she save him?

wrong? What

had left that Evangeline's voice broke through

Evangeline nodded, taking his arm,

heart would never be at peace

Nolan stood alone by the window, gazing

wine in his hand. The classmate's words echoed in his mind, alongside images of Aurelia's pallid

the night, Nolan sat alone

Aurelia's letter to her future self, which he had secretly taken from the

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

each stroke seemingly etched into his

a deep breath as his gaze

ten years

hope you still remember Nolan Creed. That boy who always wore a serious

you still together? If so, does he still quietly take

as he

u'i

to Tibet for your wedding, to have all