Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 17

Lizetta frantically waved her hands, “Grandma Fiona, you got it all wrong. I just caught a chill and got some stomach reflux these past couple of days. I just got tested the day before yesterday; definitely not pregnant. Remington knows.”

Fiona, clinging to hope, immediately whipped her head around to look at Remington, who nodded, “She’s not

pregnant.”

The old lady’s face darkened, and the hand patting Remington’s arm turned into a fierce pinch.

“A man can be all high–flying in his career, but if he can’t take care of his wife, can’t have kids, he’s good for nothing! Tell me, you’re hardly ever home, leaving your lovely wife to fend for herself. What’s the point of having you around?”

Only Fiona could talk to Remington that way; the man looked helpless.

“Lizetta and I are still young; we’re not rushing to have kids.”

“You’re almost thirty; how can you not be in a hurry? I’m back this time, and I won’t rest until I see you two make a baby!”

She laid down the law, “Tonight, you and Liz are moving back to the family house, and you better get busy making that baby!”

“Alright, alright, will do,” Remington agreed.

“What about you, Liz?”

Fiona was pushing for a baby in front of the kid, and Lizetta blushed with embarrassment, worried that the old lady would add more, so she quickly nodded.

“I’ll definitely go back to keep you company, Grandma Fiona.”

Lizetta also wanted to find an opportunity to talk to Fiona about her plans to divorce and study abroad.

and saw a familiar

over, opened the door, and slid into

looked up from his paperwork, “Am

being seen getting into a luxury car could cause unnecessary trouble. Besides, there were two instances before when she took his car to work, and two blocks away from the company building, he’d tell her

a year, and no one knew she was Mrs. Dashiell. The one who should be kept out of sight was

divorced, and I don’t want any

up the document beside him, and

back to work for the company. I’ll pretend your

when he couldn’t see her bustling around, his work efficiency

was domineering, and Lizetta, infuriated, picked up the divorce papers that had been thrown

go back to

at the company because she still had feelings for him. and wanted to make their marriage work. But even hustling under his nose every day didn’t bring

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She was tired.

you say, that I couldn’t live without the Dashiell family. I’m doing

you break your leg through dancing,

right foot was propped up, likely in pain. Silly woman, she was just asking for

She thought back to the phone call she got

Dashiell Group’s entertainment company, offering 200 grand for her new song to be used as the

Remington was backing her dreams to the hilt, while she

live without jewelry. Can’t I leave with nothing if

tried to hold on to her, she was still set on divorcing. An icy chill surrounded the man as he