His Ex Wife is A Billionaire (Evadne and Thaddeus)

Chapter 1045

Right now, every image flashing through his mind was gruesome-bloody, brutal, impossible to bear. He couldn't even let himself imagine it: if he lost Chasel, what would his world look like?

Probably like the sky caving in, everything collapsing in on itself, shattered into a wasteland of despair.

Cassius sprinted into the house, gasping for breath.

Inside, everything was cold, dark, and silent as a grave.

Suddenly, all those buried memories surged up from every corner, drowning him like a flood.

Clutching the front of his shirt, Cassius tried to steady his heaving chest, but the ache inside felt like a pack of wolves tearing him apart.

Since Aubrey died, he hadn't set foot in this place. Not once.

The person he loved most had died loving him.

That kind of pain—like a knife twisting in your heart-was something nobody could ever understand unless they'd lived through it.

But this wasn't the time for grief.

“Chasel!” Cassius yelled, hoarse, calling again and again as he tore through room after room.

up the stairs. The home theater's light was on.

"Chasel!"

his eyes

of Cassius and Aubrey played

a twisted, colorless smile creeping

Mocking himself.

and the screen, blocking his view with his own body. "lan was trying to get at me, don't let him mess

voice was ragged, eyes swollen and red, "but one of them

looked up, taking in Cassius's sweat-soaked, desperate face, his own smile shattering. "Your

he could barely breathe. "That's

blizzard for miles and miles.

The

I'm just... what? A painkiller. A substitute to numb the ache. Something that looks right

me—your mind was with him. You must've felt so lucky to find someone who looked

nothing else even comes close. You can't fool your own heart, Cassius.

with tears. He shook his head, pain threatening to tear him

a stand-in, Cassius,” Chasel said flatly. “If I'm just someone's shadow,

could react,

white rose its stem whittled to