Love’s Last Breath novel

---- Augusta panicked as soon as she saw him. She wouldn't let him in or even let anyone know about his presence. She practically shoved him out. A few days later, Augusta voluntarily approached him and spilled everything. Back then, she didn't have any other options. She couldn't keep the Greenstein family afloat by herself, so she went after powerful connections wherever she could, trading favors. And her youth made her a hot commodity. Valentin was devastated .

He drowned his sorrows in alcohol day after day. The love he thought was so pure turned out to be worse than trash. He came to loathe Augusta. As such, he made his move. Augusta was tortured to death. She was barely 30 when her life was taken. The small box Rosalea retrieved from the underground tunnel turned out to be a ring box with a tiny slip of paper inside. At first, she couldn't make heads or tails of it, especially since it held a pair of rings.

There was a note written in Esyllian, a foreign language, that said, ''To my dearest lover." The man's ring had an engraving of a name in Esyllian. ---- Rosalea had never known Augusta to be involved with anyone. So, she never found out the truth, even until she passed away. After Rosalea passed, the rings ended up with Vance. As he stared at them and the note, rage toward Valentin burned inside him, but one truth remained - Augusta had truly loved him.

In the end, Vance buried the box in Augusta's grave. A love that had soured into hatred sealed Valentin's and Augusta's fate in the worst way possible. He thought that it was for the best that they stayed separated in the afterlife.