Dear Ex-wife Marry Me by Twin Bridge

Arter Felix left the hotel, his phone buzzed with a call from Nathan.

"Hey Felix, where you at? You didn't crash at your place last night?"

"Yep."

Felix flicked his lighter and lit up a cigarette, expertly exhaling rings of smoke. "How'd you know I didn't make it home?"

"Well, I swung by your pad last night. I brought sburgers for late-night grub, but you were MIA, so I just wolfed it down solo.

Did you finally seal the deal with that heiress you've been chasing? The Miller Group's golden girl?"

Nathan was in the loop about Felix's latest conquest, the sole heiress of the affluent Miller Group. Hooking up with her could be a

gchanger - it could mean getting his foot in the door of a fortune.

The CEO of the Miller Group was known for doting on his only child, the apple of his eye.

"l didn't."

Felix was blunt, a glance at the sky told him it was tto wrap this up. "We'll talk when I get back."

It was Saturday, and Nathan had the day off, so he lingered at hwaiting for Felix.

Felix arrived swiftly, bumping into Nathan by the dumpsters. Nathan was tossing out the trash, navigating around puddles of filthy

water that demanded careful stepping to avoid.

His face lit up at the sight of Felix.

"Coming straight from the hotel, huh? Spill it, man, did you really resist the temptation? You've got sserious willpower if you

passed up a night with Miss Miller. You toldshe wasn't exactly the shy type."

"She's not," Felix admitted, recalling Carol's forward advances with a visible distaste.

Nathan's face soured with envy. "Man, I swear, if I had your looks, I'd be juggling girlfriends left and right."

Nathan was your average Joe, standing at five foot nine, the epitof ordinary. But he was Felix's best bud - the brother he never

had.

They strolled to Nathan's place in the alley, a humble, snug home, but it was his - no rent like Felix had to deal with.

crashed at Nathan's before and knew the place

yard, Listina, Nathan's sister, sat in a wheelchair, her legs

her treatments, but

other kin, though Nathan had a fiancée

Before her hospital days, they'd all hang out together, sharing noodles,

on the sidewalk, cursing

They were broke but happy, their modest earnings enough

out

Felix had seen Nathan turn green with envy, hugging Listina

contagious, their love story

sweethearts. With your looks, your kids will be

had chimed in, "Never seen

but truly happy

ill with a brain tumor.

treatments

Felix cto her one day, saying that he had found out the truth

from Carol.

spent hundreds of thousands of money, and he didn't complain a

even turned to gambling, outsmarting loan sharks - a dangerous gthat left

the tide for Listina. Now, surgery was

only shot was to get close to Carol, to somehow extract the

thought it was a joke until Felix actually

Felix reclined with a cigarette dangling from his

yet tense.

the stakes. Felix was the first

live to tell the

spent the night at the

"Yeah."

"Did nothing happen?"

"Just a kiss."

if the

not to like

you gotta let go, man. You can't expect to woo her and not give something

thought of the Miller heiress throwing herself at Felix and him turning up his nose was

bit too

mood, flicked his cigarette butt into the trash.

forgotten that everything he did,