Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 286

Lizetta must’ve been really beat, cause she took another nap in the afternoon.

When she woke up, there was a killer sunset outside the window, splashing the floor with all sorts of

vibrant colors

Lizetta headed downstairs and Edith greeted her with a chuckle.

Mrs. Dashiell, you tide you over?”

must be starving, Mr. Dashiell ain’t back yet. How about a little dessert or something to

Being cooped up, Lizetta did nothing but eat and sleep, she felt like Remington was fattening her pig for the slaughter.

She wasn’t feeling peckish, shook her head and asked, “Did he say when he’d be back?”

After a day to simmer down, Lizetta had chilled out quite a bit.

She figured she’d have a real talk with Remington when he got back.

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like a

Edith shook her head, “No call from Mr. Dashiell. Want me to pass you the phone so you can give him a nudge? He’d probably be thrilled.”

phone, Lizetta quickly

him. It’s his call to

didn’t want to be the

back, Lizetta remembered all the times she had cooked dinner and waited for Remington at home, calling to nag and ask when he’d be back. How often had those calls gone unanswered? Many times, she had

always the same: Remington was busy, couldn’t make it

on the living room sofa and started flipping through TV channels out of boredom.

swallowed by darkness, and one

no sound of a car

stood up and told Edith

wait for Mr. Dashiell a bit longer, or I could give him at call.”

as she headed for the dining

come back, I don’t get to eat?”

be back,

turned even colder; Edith got the hint that Lizetta had

silently instructed the servants to prepare the meal.

wasn’t dampened; she ate quite

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the servants to digest, then changed into her dance gear and practiced the basics for

to wash up and hit the

instinctively reached

cold as ice,

Laughable, really.

to make amends, to fulfill his husbandly

funnier was that she couldn’t keep her