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.

Nathan's before and knew

sat in a wheelchair, her legs

to afford her treatments,

had a fiancée in the hospital. He worked tirelessly to cover

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

on the sidewalk, cursing Greenfield for crushing their

a scarf. They were broke but happy, their modest earnings enough to keep them

out of

Nathan turn green with envy, hugging Listina and professing his intent

laughter had been contagious, their love story

had been jealous. "Lucky you, childhood sweethearts. With your

chimed in, "Never seen anyone more

but truly happy for

fell ill with a brain tumor. The best

the treatments

saying that he had found out the truth of the car accident

from Carol.

hundreds of thousands of money, and he didn't

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

couldn't turn the tide for Listina. Now, surgery

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

thought it was a joke until

living room. Felix reclined with a cigarette dangling from his fingers,

yet tense.

of gambling, knew the stakes. Felix was the first to beat the loan sharks

and live to tell the

you spent the night at the hotel with Miss

"Yeah."

"Did nothing happen?"

"Just a kiss."

frowned, as if

not to like

man. You can't expect to woo her and not give something in return. Life's not that

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

the orange a bit too bitter

butt into the trash. "I just don't fancy

Listina, and he hadn't forgotten that everything he did, he did