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.

drifted through life like a lost

people called her, curious about what exactly had happened at the wedding, but then Felix

know how he responded to those

the Miller Group had demoted him,

Felix hadn't spoken a word

it hadn't been for the need to

clutching his suitcase as he went downstairs,

his fists, his lips

the other executives and approached

expected a fistfight, knowing Felix's

offered him a cigarette, asking

belatedly that he feared Felix, yet he was also

caused

do you have to say that? Who do

face drained of color as he realized Felix

using Carol, about king Listina-it was a sham. Felix ad already claimed his place as her usband and was now eagerly

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