Chapter 3

Chapter 3 Don't Touch Me

The apartment, once cozy and filled with warmth, now stood in disarray, its charm completely stripped away, leaving only

chaos in its wake.

Linsey continued packing the remaining items into her suitcase, her movements deliberate, as if determined to erase every

trace of the life she had once built here.

Felix stood frozen for a moment, his eyes sweeping over the wreckage, disbelief etching his features before he stormed

toward her.

"Linsey, are you out of your mind?" he demanded, his voice rising with frustration. "I was gone for only a little while, and

you're acting like this?"

He inhaled sharply, trying to reign in his temper, and snapped, "I'm giving you one hour. Put everything back where it was!"

Linsey, unfazed, finished packing the item in her hands and slowly turned to face him. Her expression was cool, detached

-almost as if he were a stranger.

A faint, mocking smile tugged at her lips as she replied, "Felix, haven't you figured

it out? Sometimes, once something is

lost, it's gone forever. It can never be the same again."

Felix's frown deepened, impatience growing in his eyes. "What the hell are you trying to say?"

Linsey couldn't help but feel the audacity in his words. Did he truly not understand? Perhaps men like him never saw themselves as in the wrong.

No. It wasn't that. His tenderness had always been reserved for one person- Joanna, the woman he had truly loved.

Linsey's gaze was unwavering as she stared him down, her voice steady, yet every word seemed to carry the weight of everything she had been through.

ignoring both my dignity and my pleas. Do you have any idea how that felt? Felix, did you ever once stop to think about me? I was humiliated beyond measure, and yet you think

to the surface, her vision blurring as tears welled up. She didn't

her like this, Felix felt a fleeting pang of guilt, but it disappeared as quickly as it came. He dismissed it entirely, just as he had done

she had always forgiven

little charm, she would cave, just like she always had. After all, that was how things had always worked between

that thought, his anger dissipated, replaced by a

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You're upset," he began, his voice smooth and patronizing. "But you

what you've done to our

and he reached out to place his hands gently on

his touch feigning tenderness

to calm her down.

You've vented your anger. Let's not make

better day, and I promise I'll give you an even grander, more luxurious wedding. What

lips. His words were sweet, but his eyes-those eyes-betrayed a chilling indifference. He seemed so certain that she

was the way things had always

given him far too many chances, and now he

with any real

detached, and without a word, she shrugged off his hands as

nothing more than a

make my

eyes widening in shock. He had never heard her speak to him like

tension in the room as she continued, "Felix, that wedding

of having another one. I

confusion,

face resolute.

just heard the most

all too well that Linsey had no family to turn to,

nowhere else.

past five years, her entire world had been centered around him. He was certain she couldn't

"moving out" act was nothing more than her way of trying to make

his head in disbelief, he opened his mouth to speak, but was cut off by a voice

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