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.

until the evening, after the nurse had changed his medication several

noticed her sleeve caught in

pull away, but

persistent, not completely subsiding. Carol

he was

to yank her

I know I messed up." Her curiosity

down, no longer in a

"I shouldn't have lied to you. I should've realized 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 to

that good? Not necessarily. Initially, it was just

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

meant by "self-sabotage." What she couldn't stand the most bet was his secrecy about medication. No matter how much tpassed, it remained a knot in her

man of few words,

his mistakes, his apologies, how he deserved to die, but begged her not to get rid of the

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