Dear Ex-wife Marry Me by Twin Bridge

Felix strolled down to the bottom of his apartment building, wiping his lips with the back of his hand.

He felt the urge to pull out a cigarette and smoke, but he resisted.

An itch in his throat seemed on the verge of spilling over, and his heart was also feeling off-kilter.

After settling into a seat on the bus, his phone buzzed with a call from Nathan.

"Felix, those goons from last time, I've dealt with them. Hundred bucks a head."

"Yeah."

"Look, man, you gotta sort out an identity for Listina pronto. With Carol being her daddy's princess, if her dad gets wind of your

romance and starts digging, Listina's cover will be blown."

"All sorted, don't worry about it."

Nathan spat disdainfully on the other end before bursting into laughter.

"Right, right, why do I even fret? You've always been reckless. I gotta jet, work's calling."

"Uh-huh."

Felix ended the call, gazing out the window.

He had orchestrated the last incident with those thugs trying to take advantage of Carol. Under such duress, her judgment would

grow foggy, her feelings for him would intensify swiftly.

It was the classic suspension bridge effect in psychology; a person's heartbeat quickens in a scary situation, and if someone else is

there, it's easy to misattribute this accelerated heartbeat to attraction.

a bit of a crush on him, and after that incident, her

string of exes and loved the nightlife. Clinging to

to keep her on the hook, to appear heartfelt without actually being so, to keep her on tenterhooks,

deeper and deeper.

let down and then forgiven, her standards for

on the bus, Felix leaned back,

had fallen the night before, clearing the air and leaving today crisp and sunny, sunlight streaming through

windows.

handsman, no doubt

he checked a memo

the notes, lips pursed, not

with a

still

for the

didn't respond, even if

he was just busy, juggling so many jobs that he couldn't

his phone.

he said he was

mind, there was a knock; a delivery guy

brushed it off, considering

no simple affair. By afternoon,

at Nathan's company, the two enjoying a rare simultaneous break, smoking

alleyway.

call, Felix leaned back,

from his thin lips, his eyelids

gonna pick up? That's Ms. Miller ringing you up, right? You even

ringtone for her?"

"Yeah, it's annoying."

ringtone was precisely because he

Carol. She must be so lovestruck to fall for