After the Last Tear: Rising from the Ashes of a Broken Marriage novel 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?!"

The assistant was stunned. He'd never heard that Aurelia had cancer. How could she have cancer? She had only recently been released from prison, how could she...?

Just then, hurried footsteps echoed from the end of the corridor.

Nolan strode toward them, his 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 compensation for the donor."

The assistant's heart sank. He glanced at Aurelia lying on the bed, then back at Nolan, momentarily at a loss for words.

Nolan's gaze swept over the donation room, seemingly not noticing the figure on the bed, and coldly prompted, "What is it? Is there a problem?"

The assistant bit his lip, ultimately deciding against revealing the truth.

He quickly moved to the bedside, covered Aurelia's face with a white sheet, then turned to Nolan and said

"Boss, the donor... has died."

"Aurelia..." the assistant whispered, an inexplicable melancholy washing over him. "Don't blame me. Boss is about to marry Evangeline. His life is turning a new page, and whether you're alive or dead, you must completely exit his life."

The assistant took a deep breath and left the donation room.

He knew he needed to handle Aurelia's funeral arrangements quickly, without letting Nolan discover her identity.

He called the funeral home to arrange for her cremation.

However, just as he was about to hang up, the nurse approached him with a hesitant expression.

"Boss, there's something I must tell you," she said softly. "Before her death, Miss Thorne gave me a phone number. She had arranged for a sky burial two weeks ago and asked that we help complete this arrangement."

The assistant was stunned, shock reverberating through him.

A sky burial?

Why would Aurelia arrange such a thing? Had she known two weeks ago that she would die?