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

Chapter 117

Nolan's hand tightened around the letter, his knuckles turning white from the pressure. Something seemed to crush his chest, making it difficult to breathe. Each word cut into his heart like a knife, inflicting almost unbearable pain.

"Aurelia..." he whispered, his voice trembling slightly. "Why did you write these things?"

Back then, they had loved each other so deeply.

She had talked about marrying him in Tibet, having two children-a boy and a girl.

She had depended on him, loved him so completely. But why...why had things ended up like this?

Nolan closed his eyes and took a deep breath, trying to calm the storm within. He knew it was shameful to keep thinking about Aurelia.

She was his mother's killer, someone he could never forgive. Yet why did his heart still drift to her involuntarily? To her smile, her tears, her tenderness, her betrayal.

"I'm so pathetic!" Nolan muttered bitterly, his fist slamming against the desk with a dull thud.

followed, Nolan continued

his eyes had become, as if

Would you consider seeing

cold look, his tone impatient.

mouth to say more, but Nolan had already turned away, leaving only his cold

intensified, Nolan grew increasingly

before the

alone in

with a glass

staring emptily ahead.

fingers gently brushed his cheek. "Nolan, why are you drinking so much alone?" Her voice was soft and familiar. Nolan looked up, and through his drunken haze,

as he pulled her

desperate and passionate, as if he were pouring all his yearning and pain