Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 263

Lizetta yanked her hand out of Remington’s scorching palm like her life depended on it.

She was about to struggle when Remington flipped off of her.

The

guy sat on the edge of the bed, peeled off his shirt, and the sun kissed his back, muscles rolling smoothly with his movements,” sexy as hell.

But Lizetta, she lifted her foot, on autopilot trying to give him another piece of her mind – or rather, her foot, aiming to kick him off the

bed.

Little did she know, Remington seemed to have eyes in the back of his head. The moment her foot went up, his cool voice cut through the air.

“Try kicking me again and I’ll make you cry under me!”

His voice was husky, the last word heavy with a warning laced with restrained desire.

Lizetta chickened out, her raised foot reluctantly retreating.

But Remington just sat there catching his breath, not making another move.

Lizetta’s heartbeat slowly settled down too, as she lay there, unknowingly fixated on the man’s back.

He had that kind of bod that flexed with clothes on, and even more so with them off – a real piece of eye candy, muscles in all the right places.

thin layer perfectly covering his spine, tapering down to a tight waist, and even the vertebrae at the base of his

—

Old scars on his back and right side didn’t make him any less enticing in fact, they

this before; he never gave her

glimpse of those scars before,

had asked about them, but he told her to mind

back on those scars. They’d faded but still looked

had a ton of people watching his back, living

–

he’d lived the life of a fugitive

figure it out, and Remington wasn’t spilling

grown up, they’d gathered too many

her into his world.

as an invitation,” he suddenly turned,

gaze.

her escape from the other side

not inviting you! You stripped down to nothing, giving me no choice

to apply the

“Oh.”

for Lizetta. She was there to help with his burn.

before announcing, “It’s on your chest, you can reach it. I’m going to see

for its life, she didn’t dare get close to

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