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The next evening, word came from the people Simon Forrester had sent to Wrayhaven County.
After the New Year, Felix Raines met a woman from out of town at a card room. Seeing him with a house in the county, wearing a Cartier watch worth over twenty thousand, and smoking top-quality cigarettes, she thought he was a wealthy guy. After getting involved with him, she started urging him to get a divorce.
Felix Raines is a man who cares about appearances. Even when he was dirt-poor, he would put on a shabby suit to show off. Now with some actual money in hand, he's desperate to play the county's richest man.
The woman's flattery made him swell with pride, completely forgetting he'd be nowhere without Melinda Linton.
Sienna Thornton thought Felix Raines and that woman were a perfect match, like a turtle finding a green bean.
