"No way." "You know what you did, so let's not drag it out any further. Just keep it from affecting work, okay?" Felix could tell Nathan was on edge, but having always regarded Nathan as the straight-arrow type, a guy muddled by life but honest to a fault, it never crossed his mind that this straight-arrow would ever step out of line in such a tic fashion.

Their bond spanned years, weathered by shared hardships from the ttheir parents met with misfortune, right up to the present. Nathan was Felix's closest ally, and his best bud, even though the high-and-mighty folks in Felix's current social circles looked down on Nathan's humble family background.

But Felix couldn't care less about that snobbery. He knew that with a little boost from him, Nathan could shoot straight to the top.

Back in his office, Felix subconsciously checked his phone once again.

There were texts from business partners, a couple of alerts from the bank, and, of course, messages from Listina.

Carol's thread was always on top, yet it was eerily silent.

The last message still sat there unanswered from last night, like a stone dropped into the abyss.

was hard to describe - as if his heart was being constricted by a thin wire, and it was tight and painful in

at seven sharp, he couldn't resist and dialed Carol's

didn't pick up. She had genuinely forgotten about Felix's

she was at a peculiar destination -

couldn't fathom why she was drawn there. She, like Maja, had tried to

firmly refused to see

Although their interactions were brief, she still sensed a kindred spirit in the women circling Maja,

her, they

was alone in

was also locked up there. On a whim, she drove

up, she noticed a nondescript luxury car not far

to, but in Greenfield, such limited edition cars were reserved for the elite. Content belongs to ŚwThe car

ashes outside. The hand was slender,

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