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.”

afraid of Hogan getting into trouble, she might as well go ahead

don’t approve of me being with him, isn’t that just

stared at Remington, her heart betraying her

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

or panic

he simply didn’t allow her to be with Hogan, and it might just

indeed warned her several times to stay away from

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down, “Hogan

and dagger. Can’t you see what he’s scheming? It

“I’m just friends with Hogan, why would he need to

like they were matchmaking or

Lizetta brush it off, Remington chuckled

medical research institute he’s getting your brother into is actually one he invested in and created

is that possible?”

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

trust Hogan and constantly doubt his own words, Remington felt as if his chest was

tossed a file in front

It was the complete dossier on the Astoria research institute,

the sole investor.

get this medical research institute up and running, to maintain operations, to develop pharmaceutical achievements, it costs at least several billion a year. Lizetta, can you