Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 125

Lizetta was in utter disbelief, “I’m In my PJs and barefoot!”

She was carried out in her pajamas, and now he was about to dump her midway.

Remington snorted coldly, “You could choose to apologize.”

He waited for her to beg for mercy. But in the next second, the woman who refused to get out of the car turned around and boldly jumped out, slamming the car door behind her with a loud bang.

Remington’s face turned ashen, his hands clenched into fists on his knees. The driver, Christ, got back in the car, and Remington snapped, “Drive!”

Christ had been with the Dashiell family for ages and suggested, “Boss, it’s pitch–black outside. Mrs. Dashiell is lightly dressed, didn’t take her phone, and the weather’s turning cold.”

Remington cut him off coldly, “It was her choice to leave.”

Christ wondered if that meant he should go and convince Mrs. Dashiell to come back.

Meanwhile, outside, Lizetta had already turned around and started walking in the opposite direction, as the temperature inside the car seemed to drop another five degrees.

Lizetta hugged herself, but it didn’t stop the cold wind. The chilly autumn night was turning stormy, and her nightgown was thin, barely reaching her knees.

Her bare feet felt the cold, hard ground beneath them. But she didn’t want to go back and beg Remington. She wasn’t going to let him push her around without a fight..

see the duvet on the ground; the car had kicked up leaves

and wrapped it around herself. She started walking back, with raindrops falling through the gaps in the leaves overhead. Lizetta

figured the car hadn’t gone far; a half–hour walk should take her back to

for her the weather was bad; there weren’t many people around. Otherwise, wandering with hair wrapped in a blanket and barefoot, she’d look

honked from behind her. Lizetta’s nose

the car and caught

“Liz.”

you leave? You

messy

fell, like a ruffled kitten that could burst into tears with

just get in the

In the car.

handed Lizetta

took the towel and wiped herself, “How come you’re here?”

got another place here in Meadowbrook

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got off

after my shift,

and fell silent for a

about Thaddeus and often at the hospital. But his recent actions made her feel