After hanging up the phone, he didn't revisit the idea of checking on Carol. Instead, he made his way to the entrance. As he arrived the house next door, where Listina lived, he found Listina slumped on the couch, tears streaming down her face, her palms smeared with blood.

"Felix." At the sight of him, Listina's sobs grew more intense. Frowning, Felix called for the family doctor and asked, "What happened?" "I was slicing apples and I cut myself by accident. I'm in so much pain. And when I think about you marrying Carol, I feel like I just can't go on. I don't know what you're thinking, Felix. I can't read you, and it's unbearable." But Listina harbored malice in her heart. She was determined to ruin the wedding. If there was even a sliver of concern in Felix's heart for her, she believed she could succeed.

The family doctor arrived quickly, examined Listina's wound, and began bandaging it. It wasn't deep enough to require stitches, but it bled enough to look alarming.

"I'll get you sfever reducer." But Listina leaned into him and murmured, "I don't need medicine. Just helpto bed. My eyes hurt so badly." Without a word, Felix helped

Listina, right next to the Miller family mansion, though he couldn't

upstairs and Listina lay in bed, she grabbed his sleeve, "Felix, I'm sweating. Can you helptake off my clothes? It's really hot in here." Her mind was growing foggy, consumed with

face, she felt even more uncomfortable. She wanted to ruin it, to destroy the pretty face that lured men. Felix glanced at the medicine on the bedside table and realized Listina wasn't feverish from illness, but

for consent, Listina made

really don't want you to marry her. Believe me, if you go

because of your father he was the driver. He could have avoided the crash, but he was old and slow to react. Felix, you oweso much; you can never repay it all." The room turned cold as Listina realized she might have said too much. She slowly released his sleeve

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