Carol had no idea how to react, only remembering the office that day was a scene straight out of a soap opera.

She couldn't recall how many times she slapped Felix; it must have been a lot. And when he finally held her in his embrace, she

was still screaming obscenities at him.

She had never lost her composure like this. She was born a Miller, and never before had she been played for such a fool.

Felix, Listina, Nathan—they'd spun her around like a top.

She was such an idiot, she couldn't blListina for scolding her. She knew how resistant Felix had been at the beginning.

But she overestimated her own charm.

What a joke—a huge, pathetic joke.

She didn't remember how that day ended, now it all seemed like a blur. Only the media frenzy that followed was clear, detailing the

tragic car accident from years ago that claimed three lives on the spot.

One was Felix's father; the others were Listina's parents.

So that was it.

Felix had been out for vengeance for his fiancée all along.

He had never loved her. It was all a gto him, which is why he could walk away so easily.

He'd swiftly becthe president of the Miller Group, executing a ruthless corporate shake-up, and moved Listina into the

neighboring mansion that he'd bought for her—a mansion that stood in stark contrast to the Miller family estate that Carol had

and

Felix was placing Listina right

Carol felt like a

like a

all—Felix actually proposing marriage to

a two-month engagement, once filled with hope, now hung in the

but Felix's cold

waiting for your

him blankly, not recognizing the man in the expensive

thought she'd keep hysterically fighting, but real despair

took her back to the Miller estate and

cback himself, probably

was with Carol, she'd fly off the handle, cursing like a

becan endless, torturous

brain finally cleared, grasping the full extent of her

still couldn't bring herself

the wedding date loomed closer, the pressure

seat, Carol bit her lip

the wedding, and thus without Felix's pardon, Abner would remain behind bars. As his ungrateful daughter, she

something.

nauseated at the sight of Felix, turned her

rang—it was

with Maja pregnant and in good spirits,

voice

Felix

"lam."

closer to lan, careful not to tease him too much in

trickled

help, just tell me,

glanced at Felix, who was leisurely fixing his clothes, and forced

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