Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 61

Lizetta felt a hit on the back of her head and stopped in her tracks. Whirling around, she crossed her arms and looked at Evelina.

“Don’t forget! It was you who invited me. You love comparisons and outshining others so much, I was just being kind, satisfying that whim of yours. Why are you fury? Is it because you are ugly, so that you are justified?”

Evelina was fuming, ready to blow a gasket. She stormed up to Lizetta, raising hand to strike.

But Lizetta was quick on the draw. She firmly grabbed Evelina’s hand.

“Enough, Evelina!”

Evelina snorted with contempt. “So, what if you’ve attracted all the attention? Remi still danced with me, didn’t he? Lizetta, don’t you forget, without the Hawthorne family, without me, you’d be nothing but a street rat from the slums, with no chance of rubbing elbows with someone like Remi. Oh, and you showing up in that dress left by my grandma? Don’t you find yourself ridiculous? Is that your grandma or mine? Clearly, it’s mine!

Without my grandma’s nostalgic affections, would Fiona cherish you? Would the Dashiell family have taken you in? Without my granny, you’d be a big fat nothing!”

Evelina shouted with suppressed anger. Lizetta clenched her teeth, her body trembling slightly.

“If thinking that way

way makes you feel superior, then go right ahead,” Lizetta said coolly, shaking off Evelina’s grip.

Lizetta turned to leave again, but Evelina couldn’t stand her aloof and disdainful attitude.

What gave Lizetta the right?

Evelina grabbed Lizetta again, “You stole my life and became Mrs. Dashiell. I’m just asking you to give it back, what’s wrong with that? Remi never loved you; he’s always loved me!”

Evelina was like a madwoman, relentlessly pestering.

air was chilly, and

“I already said, think whatever you want, but let go! Do you want everyone to come out and watch this

cooled down a bit upon hearing

hand back and sighed in relief, but then Evelina

not that I want to think this way, but that Remi truly loves me more, Lizetta, do you

Evelina’s meaning when suddenly Evelina let out a yell and

couple of splashes, both women fell

water and felt a cramp

she calmed herself intending to swim upward, she felt a weight around her waist – Evelina was clinging tightly to her

Evelina could go this

her breath,

chest grew scacked and pulled, but couldn’t shake Evelina off. Bubbles escaped her mouth as

her fist and struck Evelina on the

when Evelina let

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kick Evelina away, swimming in the opposite direction, afraid of being entangled again. She didn’t see that, as Evelina sank, an agile

in her calf,

felt a sharp pain in her chest, unable to determine if it was from severe lack of oxygen

to swim upward, her legs cramping, she

sank deeper into the

was freezing,

eyes open, she could no longer see Remington or Evelina.

she faced death in solitude.