Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 16

“So you’re up to speed on Joseph’s condition, right? I know you overheard me talking with Wilma that night.”

Lizetta nodded, about to offer Hanna a few comforting words, when she continued, “You and Remington better get cracking on making a baby.”

Lizetta choked. Clearly, her mother–in–law had taken the reins and decided for her. Whether or not to have a kid was never really her call to make.

Thank goodness she’d had enough of this life!

“There’s no way Remington and I can have a child. I just asked the doctor, and he said with Joseph’s

condition…”

Joseph’s illness wasn’t at the point where a bone marrow transplant was necessary, and even if it was an emergency, there wouldn’t be time to pop out a kid. Plus, the odds of Lizetta’s baby being a match were slim.

With medicine advancing at lightning speed, leukemia wasn’t a death sentence anymore, especially for a well–connected family like the Dashiells.

Hanna was obviously freaking out, barking up the wrong tree. If having a baby was the only way to save Joseph, with the bond between Lizetta and Joseph, she’d be willing to make that sacrifice without Hanna pulling all the strings.

“Shut your trap! You have to have this child!” Hanna cut her off.

frown, she

this for free. I’ll throw in 10 million if you deliver, 30 million if it’s a match, and we can negotiate a separate price for each transfusion. As soon

high and mighty, stirring her coffee, as if she believed

carrot.

In Hanna’s eyes, her child was just a bargaining chip, devoid of emotion, to be demanded and dispensed with,

the moment Jolin had left the

Hanna’s contemptuous sneer.

bunch of bloodsuckers! How could Remington be outsmarted by such a woman!”

thousand; think of it as

Lizetta stand up abruptly.

the truth, my relationship with your son is toast; we’re in the middle of a divorce, so no more babies. You’re 52, not menopausal yet, right? If you really think you need a baby to save

Hanna sitting there, dumbstruck, unable to

from another

Mrs. Lizetta Dashiell get under your

even a dog knows to be loyal to its master!

in her stride, and then walked away with even more resolve. She headed back to the hospital, pushed open the door

were both there.