Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 67

Feeling totally fed up with being pestered by her, Lizetta glanced over with irritation.

“Are you really that curious? Want me to hand over my phone to you?”

Evelina’s eyes reddened, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to pry into your privacy.”

Snorting with a smirk, Cassius poured himself a full glass of red wine and approached Lizetta.

“Evelina’s been taking good care of you, and here you are not giving a damn and being all passive–aggressive. You’ve hijacked Evelina’s life, and now you can’t even drink a glass of wine as an apology? It doesn’t seem too much to ask, does it?”

With a different kind of rough–and–tumble good looks, Cassius had a rugged charm.

Especially when he was putting someone on the spot, that wild vibe was suffocating.

Lizetta, looking at the full glass of wine with a cold gaze, said, “I’m allergic to alcohol, can’t drink it.”

“My sister’s allergic to alcohol? Since when. Oh no, wait!”

Evelina called Lizetta out, and her face was panicked as she covered her mouth.

Such a novice at playing the innocent – it wasn’t that her skills slipped, but that she was sure Cassius would believe her.

Sure enough, Cassius scoffed. “Allergic? Pull the other one. Even if you were, you’d drink it. If anything goes. down, I’ve got your back.”

If a real allergy took a life, someone like Cassius could certainly handle it; in their eyes, what do other people’s joys and sorrows matter?

Just like Remington could put her on a pedestal one moment and throw her into the mud the next.

Remington sat there, watching coldly. It was Cassius who was giving her a hard time, but wasn’t it also Remington who put her through hell?

Would drinking this glass get Remington to back off and quiet down the hospital ordeal?

that she was

a bitter laugh, and her smile was tinged with paleness.

the glass

drink this. I was out of line today, showing up

her delicate hand, tilted her head back, with her

with finesse.

her wrist to show Cassius the empty glass,

were stained with the drink of the

caught his breath.

tossed the wine glass onto him, and he caught it in a

bag. Lizetta walked out

and a cold

she was an uninvited guest.

slammed the wine glass on the table, not too hard, but the

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stood up and followed her out, leaving a bunch of

as Lizetta left the private room, she dashed straight into the restroom and

that it felt like her

had to do it, to make

flushed the toilet, sat on the bowl to catch her breath for a while,

her hands and face at the sink, and coughed violently from the throat irritation caused by vomiting. with her wet hair

“Litchi?”

male voice came from behind, and Lizetta turned around

a suit but a baseball cap, a loose jacket, and jeans that perfectly showcased his ©great physique and

race car driver exuded a vibrant, fiery hormone