One moment, she thought he deserved it; the next, her head throbbed with a mix of emotions and pain.

By the tshe reached the hospital, she just happened to see the doctor leaving Felix's room.

Carol hesitated at the door, wrestling with her feelings, before she finally pushed it open slowly.

Felix was lying in the hospital bed, an IV needle sticking out of the back of his hand.

Soon, a nurse cin to give her sinstructions.

"The fever hasn't broken yet. When this bag is empty, ring the bell next to you," the nurse said, glancing at her with a hint of curiosity. "Are you family?" "Ah, yes, I am." "You should go complete the paperwork while the medication drips. It's going to be a while." After Carol finished with the paperwork and returned, she took a seat by the bed.

In her memory, this might have been the first tshe sat by his bed like this.

She felt restless, her gaze fixed on Felix's face, unable to extinguish the burning anger inside her.

the nurse had changed his

noticed her sleeve

furrowed as she tried to pull away, but when she looked up,

not completely subsiding. Carol even

with his eyes open, he was staring at her

attempted to yank her

Felix suddenly spoke, "Don't go." "Carol, I was wrong, truly. I know I messed

down, no

sooner how good you are to me, how you're the best thing for me." A bittersweet feeling swelled in Carol's heart. Was she good to Felix? Well, maybe. She was determined

all that good? Not necessarily. Initially, it

the frustration of not getting what she wanted, getting tangled up in emotions, sinking deeper and deeper. Felix's initial aloofness was infuriating, always ignoring calls, never replying to texts, as if dangling her on a string. Yet, accustomed to pride, she was inexplicably

she couldn't stand the most bet was his secrecy about medication. No matter how much

man of few words, certainly not

to die, but begged her

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