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 well go ahead and provoke

you still don’t approve of me being with him, isn’t that just jealousy?”

her heart

together tightly, “Think whatever you want, but Hogan

was no sign of anger or panic

to be with Hogan, and it might just be

back to how Remington had indeed warned her several times to stay away from Hogan,

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“Hogan is really a good

for a living, what his status is. He’s all cloak and dagger. Can’t you see what

just friends with Hogan, why would he

were matchmaking

Lizetta brush it off,

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

How is that possible?”

had clearly said that the medical institution was a joint venture by several Astoria hospitals.

words, Remington felt as

in front of

the complete dossier on the Astoria research institute, investigated by Remington, and Hogan’s name was clearly listed

the sole investor.

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