Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 85

Remington’s eyes were glued to the glass tank, his hand clutching the phone so tight his veins were popping

out.

He looked calm and collected, but his jaw was set in a hard, barely contained anger.

“Who told you the kid’s mine? I’m not planning on getting divorced, so back off!”

He cut Hanna off with a cold voice and hung up the phone without another word.

His gaze never left the figure in the glass tank, and he took another step closer, his face turning even sourer.

Cedric seriously wondered if, in the next second, Remington would ball up his fists and smash the tank to pull his wife out with his bare hands.

“Mr. Remington, please keep your cool!“, Cedric pleaded.

Remington gritted his molars to keep from losing it right then and there, and barked, “Clear the area, now!”

“Mr. Remington, you’re making a big scene: keeping Lizetta’s mermaid gig under wraps is gonna be tough.”

A vein in Remington’s forehead twitched, perhaps his stare was too piercing because Lizetta turned over, and when she glided to the other side, she met his gaze.

She froze for a moment, a stream of bubbles escaping her lips.

He was stone–faced, but Lizetta felt like his eyes were throwing daggers.

She got a little flustered and quickly turned her gaze to the group of kids plastered to the outside of the tank. giving them a wink.

minutes, and after diving in and out of the water a hundred or so times, Lizetta was gasping for air and swam up to

a large hand reached into the water, grabbed her arm tightly, and yanked her out with

her face dripping, and

eyes.

water and into the man’s arms, the familiar strength and height instantly told her who it was. She

me down,

her seaweed–like hair clinging to

real fish out of water, igniting

depths,

you don’t want to be stripped of your fish skin

ominous tone and gradually stopped struggling.

with a cashmere blanket, but only got a glance before Remington’s terrifying look made him quickly turn

out the blanket and wrapped Lizetta up, striding out as the path had already been cleared.

restaurant, with the bodyguard

was stuffed into the car and

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off the blanket and escape.

at the same time, his large hand pinned her shoulder down,

what the

his

“Get lost!”

Cedric, and had been completely flabbergasted at seeing Remington bring a mermaid into

car.

command, he bolted out of the car, closing