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.

there pronto, not keen on seeing Remington and Shirley even for

it, will ya?” she rushed him, and seeing Remington wouldn’t take it, she tried to stuff it into

pulled his hand back as if she was offering

“What’s your deal?”

I made it clear? I don’t just grab any dirty money that comes

Hogan, who was

was crystal: hé thought Lizetta

red with humiliation

sold years of her creative work, and had toiled from dawn to dusk to earn this money fair and square

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

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trivializing her struggles and efforts, not even bothering to ask

every penny is hard–earned

out a ledger from her bag, and pushed

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

threw it

hit him right in the chest, the bank card flying up and smacking his proud and icy face before they both

stormy; he closed his eyes, radiating malice.

Lizetta in disbelief, “Lizetta, have you lost your mind? How dare you throw stuff at