Dear Ex-wife Marry Me novel (Maja) novel Chapter 1822

He must have misheard.

Driving back to the office, he pulled into the parking lot and before he could stop himself, he whipped out his phone.

Not a single new message.

The screen still showed his last question to Carol—Had a good lunch?

Scrolling up, he found most of the conversation was him asking, with hardly a reply from Carol.

Standing in the biting cold, he couldn't resist scrolling further back, back to old conversations that now felt like knives.

[Felix, saw this crazy cloud on my way home, doesn't it look like a whale?]

[LOL, you gotta see this cat, looks just like a pooch. How can it be so chubby?]

[Caught a couple fighting on the street. Stood there so long my legs went numb, eavesdropping for the juicy details—it seemed the guy cheated.]

[Got docked 20 bucks by the manager today, I'm fuming!!]

[Felix, you off work yet? How long till you get here? It's pouring, and I'm without an umbrella.]

[Some drunk customer threw a fit at the bar, and started swinging a stool around. And yes, I got fined again!!]

Felix scrolled on like he was torturing himself.

The cigarette between his fingers was almost at its end; it seared his skin before he snapped to his senses and flicked it away.

He lit another and sent off a new message.

[Nearly midnight.]

Maybe she'd forgotten what day it was. He felt the need to remind her.

Carol, who had already made it home, was now lost in some mobile game, ignoring the ping of the new message.

She played it until she was too drowsy to continue, then drifted off right there.

Back at the office, Felix worked overtime until 2 a.m., but his phone remained silent.

The last message that buzzed in was an automated birthday greeting from the bank.

Shutting his laptop with a sigh, he was ready to leave, but then a new email popped up.

It was about a sudden crisis at the branch office. He sank back into his chair, and worked until dawn.

Afterwards, he showered in the break room, donned a fresh suit, and continued working until 6 p.m.