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

people called her, curious about what exactly had happened at the

he responded to those inquiries, but the questions about

that the Miller Group had demoted

day, Felix hadn't spoken

hadn't been for the need to take

suitcase as he went downstairs, and he ran into Felix, who was surrounded by

lips pressed into a thin

dismissed the other executives and approached

expected a fistfight, knowing Felix's ruthless

a

yet he was also filled with rage

has caused you trouble," Felix

anger flared, and he couldn't help but sneer, "What right do you have to say that? Who do you think you

as he realized Felix had

king Listina-it was a sham. Felix ad already claimed his place as her

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