Felix followed the instructions meticulously until every trace of the day's turmoil was scrubbed away.

Carol could hear the makeup artist's voice through the phone, and that familiar sense of helplessness seeped through her bones once again.

She thought her heart had grown immune to pain, but in that moment, it ached as if a knife was twisting inside it.

Men like Felix could send you plummeting to hell one second and hoist you to the heavens the next.

Her lips trembled several times, but in the end, she bit down hard, refusing to speak.

Her silence wasn't surrender-it was sheer exhaustion.

It was the kind of tiredness that felt like giving up, like saying 'whatever'.

She fell asleep soon after.

Felix showered and lay beside her.

days, Carol drifted through life like a lost

her, curious about what exactly had happened

responded to those inquiries, but the questions about that

seemed that the Miller Group had demoted him, sending

that day, Felix hadn't spoken a word to

knew that if it hadn't been for the need to

his suitcase as he went downstairs, and he ran into Felix, who was surrounded by a crowd of fawning

clenched his fists, his lips pressed into a thin

dismissed the other executives and approached

fistfight, knowing

Felix offered him a cigarette, asking if

was

Carol has caused

right do you have to say that? Who do you think you are to her?" Felix chuckled coldly, "Her husband. Legally

as he

claimed his place as her usband and was now eagerly Isserting his dominance. Hedoved Carol. Content belongs

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