Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 242OHMIBO

Remington eyer Lizetta’s icy face, tightenert tes grip on the steering wheel but let out a light cluble

“Don’t care at all, huh?”

Lizetta glanced at him, meeting his gare, and felt her heart uncontrollably skip a beat.

But her response was linn, “Not a bur”

Once bitten, twice shy, she couldn’t help but suspect he was pulling the wool over her eyes again.

Remington felt as if he’d been struck by an invisible arrow in the chest, and he scoffed softly, saying.

“Great, you just forget how I mined you‘

Lizetta had been called an ingrate by him before, and this comment wasnt far off, but it oddly carried an indescribable extra layer of affection and indulgence

Remington seemed a bit different tonight.

Her ears tingled, her heart raced, she feigned a yawn, and then she closed

“So sleepy, gonna catch some z

Remington didn’t respond, and after a while, he turned to look at the woman’s closed eyes and the slightly trembling lashes, his lips curling slightly

Downstairs now.

Remington leaned over to pick up Joseph, and Lizetta led the way to lay him on her bed.

“There, you better scoot now, just have someone pick up Joseph in the morning.”

Lizetta was quick to shoo him away, not even offering a drop of water as hospitality.

Remington’s paze swept across the small bedroom, settling on two large boxes and a suitcase in the comer

“Packing up already?” he inquired

Joseph stirred on the bed, and Lizetta, worried about waking him, gestured for Remington to talk in the living room.

After closing the bedroom door, she turned and said, “Yeah, slowly getting things sorted.”

thought about her imminent departure, a gloom settling

taking a

say you

much

water for

teeth, Lizetta turned to pour him water

it with a frown,

glass back, saying, “Forget it if you

clicked his tongue but didn’t let go, “I’ll drink.”

then declared, “I’m staying

1 want it.”

expected him to push his luck, and her face

finish your water and

if Yolanda wasn’t coming back from the set tonight,

their divorce papers, for

sip, then set the glass on the coffee table, leaned back on

didn’t ask for your permission”

disbelief, “Mr. Dashiell, before you start barking orders, please remember, this ain’t the Starlight Group, nor is it the Dashiell family home.”

“But this is Zion City, and I call the

Lizetta was speechless.

City, he indeed had the final say; even if Lizetta called the cops,

09:51

fury, while a gint

any time during the night. I he kick up a fuss, you wont

scenes he described, her expresston

171

Torget it, 1 step in the

tea tall and straight withitta quackly reaching a

be genuinely concement about Joseph, with no sterior

now, and

kept the heater on

video Joseph had sent her, about Remington standing up for her today, and with gritted

don’t have a bed for you if you’re willing to rough it

Tine by me

the man turned and headed for the couch, casually tossing