Listina didn't want to give up. This was her golden opportunity, after all.

In a moment of boldness, she shed every article of clothing and dropped to her knees in what could only be described as a compromising position.

"Felix, look at me," she pleaded, her voice laced with desperation. "Why bother bringing Carol back? She's just going to be a third wheel. Look at me, Felix. Whatever she can do, I can do too." But Felix averted his gaze, while clenching his hand tightly around the bed-sheets.

The heartache was so acute that he felt oddly lucid.

So lucid that Carol's rejection struck him with sobering clarity.

"Call her," he insisted.

When he dialed her number, she wouldn't pick up.

Listina, who was completely bare, was incensed to see that Felix remained unmoved, not even sparing her a glance. The outrage boiled within her.

Why? Why, at this pivotal moment, did he crave Carol? Rising to her feet, Listina attempted to approach him once more but was stopped short by his words.

"Listina, I only want Carol." Her pupils shrank, and her mind reeled in disbelief.

lost his mind? Did he understand what he was saying? Wasn't his impending marriage to Carol meant to be a humiliation for her? "Felix." Her

merciless, spiking his drink

his own doing, a consequence of

able to stomach the humiliation any longer, Listina

attention.

everything alright? The door seems to be locked from the outside." Felix, rubbing his temples, commanded with restrained annoyance, "Break the door down." Soon, the

floor, Felix instructed Manny, "Take her home." Listina was swiftly

beside the bed, called

promptly, administering a shot to ease the overwhelming effects of the

to the

you find her?" "She's on her

eerily calm, signaled

a pack of cigarettes, yet his shaking fingers failed to light

leaned back, and

guess at the cause of his amusement; perhaps the situation had driven him

state; she assumed

from Listina, urging her to return

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