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.

saying? Wasn't his impending marriage to Carol meant to be a humiliation for her? "Felix." Her voice trembled as she eked

had been merciless, spiking his

his own doing, a consequence of his reliance on pills

humiliation any longer,

attention. Manny knocked

from the outside." Felix, rubbing his temples, commanded with restrained annoyance, "Break the door down." Soon, the

floor, Felix instructed Manny,

bed,

a shot to

to the doctor's warnings

Felix inquired, "Did you find her?"

calm, signaled

reached for a pack of cigarettes, yet

leaned back, and let out a

perhaps the situation had

driving back, was oblivious to Felix's state; she assumed that Listina had succeeded in her

a message from Listina, urging her to return hfor a critical

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