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.”

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

still don’t approve of me being with him, isn’t

Remington, her heart betraying her with its

you want, but Hogan

of anger or panic for being found out.

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

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

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Chapter 223

“Hogan is really 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 he whisked you away and sold you

why would he need to tell me about his family

not like they were

Lizetta brush it off, Remington

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

is that possible?”

shocked. Hogan had clearly said that the medical institution was a joint venture

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

tossed a file in front

It was the complete dossier on the Astoria research institute, investigated by Remington,

the sole investor.

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