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.”

Lizetta wasn’t afraid of Hogan getting into trouble, she might as well go ahead and provoke

me being with him, isn’t that just jealousy?”

at Remington, her heart betraying her with its pounding.

“Think whatever you want, but Hogan

was no sign of anger or panic for being found out.

be with Hogan, and it might just be because he had a beef

warned her several times to stay away from Hogan,

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down, “Hogan is really a good

cloak and dagger. Can’t you see what he’s scheming? It wouldn’t be surprising if he whisked you away

he need to tell me about

not like they were matchmaking or dating.

it off, Remington chuckled again.

research institute he’s getting your brother into is actually one he invested in and created himself. Still think

How is that

that the medical

Remington felt as if his chest was

tossed a file in front of Lizetta.

look. It was the complete dossier on the Astoria research

the sole investor.

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