Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 205

Remington’s eyes landed on the bank card being passed to him, and for a moment, they

froze over.

The dude didn’t take the card; he just looked up, locking eyes with Lizetta.

“So you hit me up today just to give me this?”

His voice was laced with suppressed rage.

He had spent the whole trip wondering that maybe she had a change of heart, and didn’t want to make a scene anymore.

Or perhaps she had a rough patch outside, ran into some trouble, and needed to lean on him.

He even toyed with the thought that maybe she just missed him.

All revved up with anticipation, he’d urged Cedric to step on it, but what he didn’t see coming was her showing up to drop a cool thirty mil on him, and with another guy, no less.

She sure knew how to drop a bombshell now, didn’t she?

The guy was freezing cold, but Lizetta didn’t flinch a bit.

keen on seeing Remington and Shirley even for a second more.

rushed him, and seeing

back as if she was offering him a death warrant instead of a hefty

“What’s your

back with a chilly voice, “Lizetta, haven’t I made it clear? I don’t

swept over Hogan, who

Lizetta got the cash

flushed red with humiliation and

dusk to earn this money fair and square just to pay

Dashiell family’s charity case, and certainly done with people like Shirley thinking they could

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here was Remington, trivializing her struggles and efforts, not even bothering

Remington, “This three million, every penny is hard–earned by mel I’ve got records of every transaction, clear as day. Seet

bag, and

picture of disgust, but he still didn’t take it; he was

threw it at

chest, the bank card flying up and smacking his proud and icy face before they both landed

closed his eyes, radiating malice.

at Lizetta in disbelief, “Lizetta, have you lost your mind?