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

me being with him, isn’t

stared at Remington, her heart betraying her with its pounding.

tightly, “Think whatever you want,

no sign of anger or panic

her to be with Hogan, and it

back to how Remington had indeed warned her several times

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self–deprecatingly, looking down, “Hogan is

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 surprising if

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

were matchmaking or dating.

brush it off,

into is actually one he invested in and

How is that

had clearly said that the medical institution

doubt his own words, Remington felt as if his chest was blocked by a

in front of

Lizetta pulled it out and took a look. It was the complete dossier on the Astoria research institute, investigated by Remington, and

the sole investor.

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