Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 124

Just got Daniel’s background check; it just came in.

Lizetta glanced back at the car; Yolanda hadn’t even come chasing after them. Clearly, she had been held. back.

Yolanda had got a fiery temper, if she really got into it with the Remington folks, who knew if she’d get hurt.

Lizetta was panting like a deflated balloon, “Fine, I’ll be a good girl and go back with you.”

Only then did Remington lift his gaze to look at her, his deep eyes fixating on her reddened eyes. He was a bit irritated, his voice laced with sarcasm, “No use crying over spilled milk, huh?”

He still made the call, instructing. “Be nice to Yolanda.”

Seeing him hang up, Lizetta wrapped herself in the duvet and huddled next to the car door, silent.

After a while, Remington was the first to break the silence, “Don’t you have anything to say to me?”

Lizetta’s heart skipped a beat; her hands clenching under the duvet. With him so ticked off and asking like that, could it be he found out she was pregnant?

She subconsciously touched her belly, her face a picture of confusion as she turned to look at him.

“What do you want me to say? That I saw your heartfelt confession to Evelina? That I know my place and wish you well?” She tried to change the subject, and she clearly succeeded.

frowned slightly, “What heartfelt confession?”

the comer of her lips,

couldn’t keep her cool, she turned her head

wife who saw

a startled cry, Lizetta was yanked into

looked down at her, a frown creasing

heartfelt confession to Evelina at the amusement park?”

“Don’t tell me you didn’t know that’s what it

you illiterate? The most important subject is missing,

laughed, “If not you, then who? Did Evelina

mockingly, but her voice

no one else would be so theatrical, but Evelina, maybe not

gift she wanted to give herself, something to motivate herself. Could it really not be Remington?

about being dumb and then playing the victim, ‘stupid‘ is

convinced, “Pea–sized brain?”

to wrong me, and show

there at the amusement park too, ditching me to protect her. That big drone

at the time, under those circumstances, no one