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

what exactly had happened at

to those inquiries, but

that the Miller Group had demoted him, sending

Felix hadn't spoken a word

the need to take care of Fiona,

clutching his suitcase as he went downstairs, and he ran into Felix, who was

lips pressed into

dismissed the other executives and approached

had expected a fistfight,

instead, Felix offered him a

belatedly that he feared Felix, yet he was also filled with rage because

has caused you trouble,"

Who do you think you are to her?" Felix chuckled coldly, "Her husband. Legally recognized." Oh, so he

of color as he

ad already claimed his place as her usband and was now eagerly Isserting his dominance. Hedoved

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