Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 199

The coolness suddenly snapped Lizetta awake.

Her eyes flew open, and in a flurry, she shoved the man on top of her.

Remington felt her resistance and let go, lifting his head.

Lizetta’s face was flushed as she turned her head away, gasping for air with a soft whimper.

“No, don’t.”

Remington froze, with his Adam’s apple bobbing; he had used all his self–control to roll off

her. He unzipped his hoodie and stood up, heading over to the window.

Lizetta sat up silently, awkwardly fixing her messy clothes and hair.

She hung her head low, trying to calm her nerves.

Behind her, Remington’s voice broke the silence, “Your hair is still wet, come over here.”

Lizetta looked back and saw him back to his normal self; with a hairdryer plugged in, he gestured her to come over.

With her hair still damp, she got up and walked over.

“I’ve got it.”

shoulders, making her sit on the bed.

switch, and warm air started to blow onto her scalp.

up straight, feeling his fingers gently weaving

and dense. Remington seemed quite taken, spending a long time

he finally turned off the dryer, Lizetta suddenly looked up and said,

that day? Do

the dryer, “Which

me back to the Dashiell family, fourteen years ago.”

blur, even

face, Lizetta knew he

died at the hands of Hans Gardenia. It was a close shave, and all I could see was red, and the taste of blood in my mouth. You brought me back,

near me. Then you popped an orange candy in my

doctor check you out, and I will give you a whole jar of these candies,

grasp

curving slightly, “So, I managed to cheer you up with just a candy

her gaze dropped to hide the surge

didn’t know that this was the first candy she had tasted in two years since being abandoned

was

with candies again, and it was like a beam

next day, Remington did give her a jar full of colorful fruit–flavored candies.

all these years, her favorite remained the orange–flavored ones; she always remembered the taste of that

years, that’s the only trick you’ve got!” Lizetta playfully stuck her tongue out

deep eyes showed an unusual hint of amusement, which made