Max's voice dropped to a freezing register. "Did you come all this way just to tell me that?"
"I want to ask about Anne's schooling," Felicia replied steadily. "What are your arrangements for her?"
"You do not need to concern yourself with Anne's affairs anymore," he stated. His tone was like forged steel, leaving absolutely no room for negotiation.
Felicia's face tightened with frustration. "Max, can you please stop acting so impulsively? Have you actually given any serious thought to what is best for Anne?"
"Felicia, what gives you the right to question me?" Max snapped.
Felicia froze as he began closing the distance between them. His impossibly handsome, frostbitten face came into sharp focus until he was looming directly over her. "Tell me," he demanded, his words dripping with venom. "What exactly gives you the right to question me?"
Felicia's hands balled into tight fists at her sides. She fought desperately to keep her emotions in check. She did not want to fight with him. Coming here had clearly been a massive mistake. "I am sorry for bothering you," she finally whispered.
Without another word, she turned to grab the lunch container and marched toward the door. Her fingers had barely grazed the doorknob when his dark, menacing voice echoed from behind her. "If you walk out that door, you will never have anything to do with Anne ever again."
Felicia's pupils dilated in shock as a terrifying chill shot straight up from the soles of her feet. Her body went completely rigid. Slowly, she turned around, her eyes turning red as she stared at him in disbelief.
It took her a long time to find her voice. "Max, I have never done you wrong. What gives you the right to strip away my parental rights?"
Inside the room, Max stood motionless, his expression murderous as he kept his icy gaze locked on the closed door.
Felicia exited the corporate building and climbed into the waiting car. She gave Dean the address to Hawthorne Manor. Noticing her flushed face and trembling hands, Dean glanced at her with concern. "Ms. Ross, did something happen?"
"It is nothing," she murmured softly. "Just drive, please."
Dean wisely kept his questions to himself. He put the car in gear and smoothly merged into traffic, heading straight for the Hawthorne family estate.

Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: The Ugly Wife’s Stunning Comeback (Felicia and Max)
Take her back? Want to see her?? Donno about Felicia but I think I’m falling for this Max somehow🫠🙈pls update daily...
I knew it! Hopefully Felicia's health will improve and will want to have the baby. Oh how I despise Max's family....
Please post *I forgot I ever loved you*...
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....