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.

to Carol meant to be a humiliation for her? "Felix." Her voice trembled as she eked out his name, only to see him bow his head, taking

spiking his drink with

own doing, a consequence of his reliance on pills during

stomach the humiliation any longer, Listina broke

drawn attention. Manny

temples, commanded with restrained

Felix instructed

beside the bed, called for a

a shot to ease the

by the bedside, Felix listened to the doctor's warnings about the medication's

"Did you find her?" "She's on her way back,"

calm, signaled a brewing

yet his

back, and let out a

only guess at the cause of his amusement; perhaps the

back, was oblivious to Felix's state; she assumed

from Listina, urging her

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