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.

pronto, not keen on seeing Remington and Shirley even

him, and seeing Remington

as if she was offering him

“What’s

with a chilly voice, “Lizetta, haven’t I made it clear? I don’t just grab any dirty

swept over Hogan, who was

Lizetta

pale face flushed red with humiliation and anger.

and had toiled from dawn to dusk to earn this money fair and square just to pay back

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

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Remington, trivializing her struggles and efforts, not even bothering to ask or check, just assuming her

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

and pushed it along with the card toward Remington.

he still didn’t take it; he was frozen solid.

of pique, threw it

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

he closed

stared at Lizetta in disbelief, “Lizetta, have you lost