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.”

departure, a gloom

strode over surprisingly taking a seat

frowned. “Didn’t say you could

thirsty, it’s not too much to fetch a

water for

turned to pour him water and handed it over, urging. “Drink

with a frown,

saying, “Forget it

but didn’t

sip, then declared, “I’m staying over

1 want it.”

him to push his luck, and her face

water and get

back from the set tonight, there’s no way Lizetta would

had just signed their divorce papers,

the glass on the coffee table, leaned back on the sofa, loosened his tie, and crossed his legs

for your

before you start barking orders, please remember, this ain’t the Starlight

nodded, “But this is Zion City, and I

Lizetta was speechless.

the final say; even if Lizetta called the cops, they wouldn’t dare evict

09:51

of bottled up fury, while a gint

any time during the night. I he kick up

the scenes he described, her expresston tam with

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way to the entrance tea tall and

seemed to be genuinely concement about Joseph, with no

winter now,

he kept the heater on in the

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

bed for you if

Tine by me

could finish, the man turned and headed for the couch, casually