Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 230

“Alright, I promise,” Remington said, not even bothering to ask before he agreed.

He was so eager it was like he feared that if he hesitated even a second, Lizetta–would take back this sliver of a chance to make amends.

Lizetta nodded, “Then you’ve got to start being a good ex–husband, starting now.”

Remington felt a heavy weight on his chest, so much so that he yanked at his tie in frustration.

“A good ex–husband? But we’re not officially divorced yet!”

“That’s why I’m begging you, Remi. I don’t care. You just agreed to it anyway.”

Lizetta frowned with a little huff, her slight temper a vast improvement over the indifferent, numb facade from before.

Remington’s stern expression softened, “What does being a good ex–husband entail?”

“It means stop popping up in front of me all the time, let me go, fulfill my wish to leave.”

Stop shaking her resolve, she couldn’t take this tug–of–war anymore. She was afraid to look back, only to find herself falling into an abyss once again.

Suddenly, Remington clenched his fists, his eyes brimming with bitterness.

He hadn’t expected her final request to be simply letting her go.

sweet girl looked all innocent while delivering

to, but she had been innocent these four years.

Dashiell family,

by him, scorned by

four years of cold neglect, what right did

set you free.”

a long pause, Remington’s Adam’s apple bobbed,

“Thanks, Remi.”

lips curled into a smile, and with those words, she turned, opened

walking away, the darkness in his eyes

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Chapter 230

his eyes sharply.

who would soothe his own

stepped out of the car,

let go

remembered lying in the hospital bed, in physical pain but clutching a secret, shameful sweetness in her heart.

for the best, a bizarre twist of fate made her Remington’s

confess her feelings, which she’d kept buried deep in her heart, to

to visit her; she was ready to bravely confess her love, to tell him

way a sister loves a brother, but the way a girl loves her

she never got to see Remington; instead, she heard he had left the country after Fiona had whipped him till he bled.