Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 113

Lizette looked up, her gaze locked onto Remington.

“My left eye diagnoses you with delusion of grandeur, and my right, with narcissism–both quite severe. I‘ check where to register for your treatment.”

Remington didn’t get mad, and his thin lips curved slightly.

“You’d be more convincing if you put your dress on before making such statements.”

Lizetta remembered how she was awkwardly bent over pulling off her dress when he walked in. The action now seemed rather embarrassing.

And now, the torn dress was still half–draped over her knees, a chilly breeze teasing the space between her legs.

Her bare thighs were pressed directly against the fabric of the man’s suit pants, through which she could feel the texture of his muscular thighs and the heat of his body.

Compared to her utter disarray, he looked like he was about to attend an important event, even his bow tie was impeccably knotted.

To any onlooker, the scene would seem as if she was the one seducing him.

Lizetta’s face flushed with embarrassment, then boiled over into anger.

“Mr. Dashiell, don’t flatter yourself! I didn’t know you were home! If I had, I wouldn’t have come in. Let go of mel

She wriggled and twisted, her soft and fragrant body sparking intense friction and heat against him.

A tightening in his lower abdomen, and Remington let out a soft grunt.

It was extremely censual, and the desire was at its peak.

froze, her ears

cradled the back of her head, wrapped around her waist, rolled over, and pinned her

carpet

“Mph!”

were tightly sealed by his scorching breath against her

surprise, the man hadn’t even closed his own. In their close gaze, his usually cold, deep eyes were now filled with desire for conquest

heart trembled, and she wanted to bite him. But the man anticipated this and

1. up.

panted, “Do you

a horned–up jerk in the blink of

cool off?”

and she looked

off me! I don’t want this. I came back for my stuff, not

1/2

13:13

all wrong

was frantic, now certain that she was carrying

intimate relations during the first

wrists firmly above her head, bending down to plant fervent kisses along her neck and collarbone, his hot breath spreading to her sensitive

not? We haven’t tried it elsewhere. Be good, go with it, save yourself some

more she resisted, the more turbulent the emotions in his eyes.

belt buckle being undone made Lizetta’s

find Evelina if you’re that hot and bothered, let go

me.”