Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 223

Lizetta racked her brain a bit and furrowed her brows.

Seeing her simmer down, Remington let go, and noticing the faint red mark his pinch left on her delicate cheek, he scowled and said in a deep voice,

“Did you toss your good girl act to the dogs?”

Lizetta pouted, “Exactly, fed it right to you.”

She wasn’t wrong; her former sweetness had indeed all been given to Remington.

Remington, being called a dog, shockingly found he was getting used to it.

This realization sent a chill across his handsome features. As he was nursing a headache, Lizetta suddenly piped up.

“Are you jealous?”

Remington’s eyes flickered, and when he looked at Lizetta, he curled his thin lips into a mocking smile and said,

“We’re just not officially divorced yet, that’s all.”

Lizetta, not willing to give in, retorted, “So, in a month’s time, I can be with Hogan, is that. what you mean?”

Remington, barely keeping his temper in check, replied coolly,

“Lizetta, any woman of mine, even if I don’t want her anymore, nobody else better dare touch. If they do, they gotta be ready to face the consequences.”

Hogan getting into trouble, she might as

basically, you still don’t approve of me being

her heart betraying

lips pressed together tightly, “Think whatever you want, but Hogan is out of the

anger or panic for being found

simply didn’t allow her to be with Hogan, and it might just be because he had a beef with the

Remington had indeed warned her several times to stay away from Hogan, her heartbeat gradually settled.

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self–deprecatingly, looking down, “Hogan is really

“You don’t even know what his family does for a living, what his status is. He’s all cloak and dagger. Can’t you see what he’s scheming? It wouldn’t be

with Hogan, why would he need to tell me about his

they were

off, Remington

your brother into is actually one he invested in and created himself. Still think he’s a saint with no ulterior

How is that

was shocked. Hogan had clearly said that the medical institution was

her only trust Hogan and constantly doubt his own words, Remington felt as

file in front

took a look. It was the complete dossier on the Astoria research institute, investigated by

the sole investor.

pharmaceutical achievements, it costs at least several billion a year. Lizetta, can you still say