Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 216

Apollo looked totally skeptical and thought to himself that one million was a steal

Erica got back on her feet and rolled up Thaddeus‘ right sleeve.

“Lizetta. Thaddeus always had your back, remember? Check out this scar. Isn’t this from when Hans got you that one time? It’s a whopper. He bled buckets for you. You can’t be cold feet over one mil can you?”

Thaddeus‘ right arm was marked with a particularly ghastly scar that ran from his forearm all the way to his armpit.

He’d taken the hit for Lizetta, all right.

Thaddeus had been bedridden for over a year, skin and bones, muscle atrophy making the wound look all the more ferocious.

Lizetta couldn’t stand to see Thaddeus bedridden and toyed with like this, subjected to such humiliation. Her eyes flashed with frost.

*Get your hands off my big brother!”

She surged forward and yanked Erica away with force.

Erica stumbled, banging her lower back against the corner of a table and let out a scream.

Apollo, seeing his wife hurt, flew into a rage and swung at Lizetta.

Yolanda, who’d been right by Lizetta’s side, wasn’t about to let him get away with it. She lashed out with a kick and sent the not–so–slender Apollo flying.

Suddenly, the hospital room was in utter chaos.

Over at the Dashiell Group’s CEO office.

the picture of elegance and calm, seemingly

open before him wasn’t any

was a

routine, work plans, and various sources of

to the sweat and tears

life.

accumulated sums were indeed the fruits of Lizetta’s

that little girl who couldn’t

had underestimated

more capable and far more ruthless than

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sign of her determination to

pages of the

then, Cedric burst through the

the diary and tucked

looked up,

been on pins and needles since yesterday, afraid of

unnervingly so, as if he

Remington was, the more unnerved

of serving a king being akin to

the now ex–Mrs. Dashiell, he didn’t know

not reporting it felt even

this was