Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 27

Remington’s gaze was icy as he glanced over, and Timothy had to cough to maintain his

composure.

“Who has Mr. Dashiell managed to anger for them to prank you like this? Quite bold.”

The others caught on after hearing this.

True, with Remington’s status, if he really had such issues, he would’ve sought private treatment from a team of specialists long ago, instead of entertaining all these randoms self–promoting online, right?

Thankfully it was just a prank, or else wouldn’t they all be at risk of being silenced for good?

“That’s way out of line!”

“Mr. Dashiell has got to get to the bottom of this and find the sneaky little weasel behind

it.”

Everyone echoed in with agreement, while Remington’s phone kept ringing. The man’s face was stone–cold as he cut off the screen projection and silenced his phone before speaking in a deep voice,

“Let’s continue.”

After the meeting, as soon as he got back to his office, Timothy couldn’t hold back and sprawled out on the couch, clutching his stomach.

“Remi, it must be little Lizetta’s doing, right? Haha, haven’t seen her in years, and she’s still so interesting.”

and the girl sneakily gave him a full set of gel nails in the middle of the night, the kind that you

next day Remington had an inter–school basketball game, and he played with those shiny

got stomach cramps just thinking about it; he even saved a photo on his computer, truly a dark

this world, the only person who would dare to prank

in the project proposal

wiped the smile off his face, “Come on, I’ll stop, alright? By the way, I haven’t seen little Lizetta myself in a couple of years, when are we all going to hang

keep her hidden away forever, Mr. Dashiell, don’t be

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set up a firewall on his phone, and the Incessant

Timothy out when the office door opened, and Cedric walked in with a

a local express

frowned, his eyes landing on the parcel with

Timothy was a bit excited, taking the parcel.

and your wife playing some kind of romance game? Sending

and snatched the parcel,

you that

“Looking at how cherished it seemed,

genuinely in a bad mood, so he tactfully left the office. As soon as

with your boss and his

sent, but he didn’t dare say it and quickly

nervous smile.

Inside the office.

a thud, a wedding ring fell out first.

carelessly stuffed into an express bag, along with the