Before Felicia could formulate a reply, another message from Max lit up the screen.
[If you feel uncomfortable about anything, you can tell me directly. Problems can only be solved if they are spoken aloud.]
Felicia stared at his sober, entirely rational words. He was always like this, a man whose logic forever outweighed his emotions. He was stating a fact she could not deny, yet a strange, indescribable heaviness settled in her chest.
[I do not have any concerns,] she typed back carefully. [But we do not have any emotional foundation between us. It is impossible for us to suddenly become intimately close.]
Max immediately called her. Startled, she stared at the glowing screen for a few seconds before finally pressing the answer button and bringing the phone to her ear.
"No feelings for me?" his deep, magnetic voice resonated through the speaker.
Felicia froze, her grip tightening on the phone. After a long moment of silence, she countered softly. "What do you think?"
Max let out a low, rumbling chuckle. "So slow to warm up. But it does not matter. When I get back, we will take our time and cultivate those feelings. We will cultivate them wherever you feel most comfortable."
His last sentence carried a distinctly suggestive, teasing lilt. A flush of heat instantly rushed to Felicia's cheeks, and her fingers curled tighter against the edge of the device.
His voice continued smoothly, carrying a tone of false concern. "Does your body crave it when you sleep at night?"
Felicia squeezed her eyes shut. "Max, what are you talking about?"
"This concerns our future harmonious life together," he replied, sounding entirely natural. "It is a necessary topic to discuss to improve our relationship. We are both adults, and considering we have already been intimate several times, there is no need to avoid the subject or feel embarrassed. Anyway, I want you right now. I have not even asked how you enjoyed the experience."
Listening to him discuss the matter with such calm composure, Felicia took a deep, steadying breath to rein in her flustered emotions. "You certainly are experienced at this," she said coldly.


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The readers' comments on the novel: The Ugly Wife’s Stunning Comeback (Felicia and Max)
Is this coming to an end...
Oh nooo!! Don’t tell me Max will get washed ashore on a remote island then loses all his memory, then falls inlove with the local girl who saves him. Then when he meets Felicia again he won’t recognize her and breaks her heart again. Additional plot twist is that Felicia is pregnant with their 2nd child. Please pleaseee don’t give us this scenario.. LOL!!!...
If Max can be forgiven Darrin can be forgiven. And I do not like this marriage business but if it has to happen I hope after he gets stranded on some remote island alone while Felicia and his family fight over custody she wins and also gets half his estate. Then by time he comes back she's found having and remarried. Lol...
The writer is good. They're making me interested in Max. I won't say like yet....
It seems the only one who hasn't suffered is Max. Even his family fakes anger and disappointment all their own doing so they suffer a little. Everyone else has suffered. Luke and Jeremy unrequited. Felicia has suffered the most from family to unrequited to romance to long suffering Mother. Even baby Anne never had a mother til Felicia suffered then came back only to suffer some more. lol...
Oh no what did Colton do?... I have a bone to pick. When Olisha had to go the hospital why beg for Felicia? When she so loved Max? Seemed like she was in on the setup for Felicia to see a suicide for the 2nd time orchestrated by holden and his brother again. I might drop this series it's becoming endless with no real satisfaction for me. I don't need it to end because it's like a soap opera but if things don't end up making sense, tying up loose storylines it's gonna get old fast for me. Good luck author....
Anne, I think your baby brother is on the way. Thank goodness it doesn't say that Felicia is crying just like the last time but still, there's no willingness on her part. Max! You need to try harder. Make her fall in love with you again....
The writer did a big one with Jeremy's speech to Max. He said almost everything that needed to be said. I have wanted Felicia or someone who knows the past to just tell that whole stinking family what they did and how disgusting they are and what they're doing now how unfair it all is to Felicia. A pity it was only Max but he really needed to hear this (plus more)....
I love the chase of this novel, how you’ve build each of the characters. They almost seem like real. I feel like I know them irl. But however I would like to know what’s max’s pov and what’s going on in his head. I truly believe max’s just a grey character. And also please please please update more!!!...
I was really hoping that Max and Felicia would end up together, but why did Max do that to Felicia? 😭 Is that his way of making Felicia overcome the trauma Holden caused her? I don't think that's helping at all. I just hope Max's character has some redeeming qualities in the coming chapters....