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

me being with him, isn’t

Remington, her heart betraying her with its

tightly, “Think whatever you want, but Hogan is out of the question.”

anger or panic

Hogan, and

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

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“Hogan is

status is. He’s all cloak and dagger. Can’t you see what he’s scheming? It wouldn’t be

he

not like they were matchmaking

Lizetta brush it off, Remington chuckled

into is actually one he invested in and created himself. Still think he’s a

is that

Hogan had clearly said that the medical institution was

words, Remington felt as if his

in front of Lizetta.

a look. It was the complete dossier on the Astoria

the sole investor.

to maintain operations, to develop pharmaceutical achievements, it costs at least