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.

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

had been merciless, spiking his drink with a heavy

doing, a consequence of his reliance on

able to stomach the humiliation any longer, Listina

had drawn attention.

Felix, rubbing his temples, commanded with restrained

on the floor, Felix instructed Manny, "Take her home."

beside the bed, called for a

administering a shot to ease the overwhelming

to the doctor's warnings about the medication's

inquired, "Did you find her?"

was eerily calm,

reached for a pack of cigarettes, yet his

set the cigarette aside, leaned back, and

the cause of his amusement; perhaps the situation had driven him to the edge of

state; she assumed that Listina had succeeded in

from Listina, urging her to return hfor a critical

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