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.

she softened

10 million if you deliver, 30 million if it’s a match, and we

sat there, all high and mighty, stirring her coffee, as if she

carrot.

fingers turned ice–cold. In Hanna’s eyes, her child was just a bargaining chip, devoid of emotion, to be

her dress, her mind replaying the moment Jolin had left the Dashiell family

Hanna’s contemptuous sneer.

Remington be outsmarted by such

upset. It’s just 2 thousand; think of it as tossing

bitter memories made Lizetta stand

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?

left, leaving Hanna sitting there, dumbstruck, unable to believe what she’d just heard.

from

Lizetta Dashiell get under

their time on her; even a dog knows to be loyal to its master! She’s making up crazy lies

walked away with even more resolve. She headed back to the hospital, pushed open the

were both there.