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.

out of there pronto, not keen on seeing Remington and Shirley even

the last dime. Take it, will ya?” she rushed him, and seeing Remington wouldn’t take it, she tried

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

“What’s your

it clear? I don’t just

swept over Hogan, who was standing

Lizetta got

flushed red

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

being the Dashiell family’s charity case, and certainly done

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her struggles and efforts, not even bothering to ask

up in her eyes as she glared at Remington, “This three million, every penny

a ledger from her bag, and pushed

he still didn’t take it; he was frozen

in a fit of pique, threw it at

up and smacking his

expression was stormy; he closed his eyes, radiating

lost your mind? How dare you throw