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

sister, sat in a wheelchair, her legs atrophied since

to afford her treatments, but

had a fiancée in the hospital. He worked tirelessly to cover Listina's medical

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

sidewalk, cursing Greenfield

knitted Felix a scarf. They were broke

brands out of

turn green with envy, hugging Listina and professing his intent

love story

you, childhood sweethearts. With your looks, your kids will

in, "Never seen anyone more

envious but truly happy for

happiness was short-lived as Listina soon fell ill with a

treatments drained their

cto her one day, saying that he had found out the truth of the car accident and that he was going

from Carol.

Listina. He spent hundreds of thousands

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

turn the tide for Listina. Now, surgery was

shot was to get close to

it was a joke until Felix actually

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

yet tense.

seen Felix's darker days of gambling, knew the stakes. Felix was

to tell the

the night at the hotel

"Yeah."

"Did nothing happen?"

"Just a kiss."

frowned, as if

not to like about her? Even if it was just a fling, it's a

you gotta let go, man. You can't expect to woo her

herself at Felix and him turning up his nose was

orange a bit too

his cigarette butt into the trash. "I just don't

forgotten

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