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.”

the phone, Lizetta

It’s his call to come

be the one chasing him

the times she had cooked dinner and waited for Remington at home, calling to nag and ask

the answer was always the same: Remington

the living room sofa and started

swallowed by darkness, and one by one, the

a car pulling in.

hungry, Lizetta stood up and told Edith to get dinner

Mr. Dashiell a

as she

doesn’t come back, I don’t get to eat?”

Dashiell said he would be back,

even colder; Edith got the hint that Lizetta had been stood up

another word, Edith silently instructed the servants to prepare the meal.

appetite wasn’t dampened; she ate quite a

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digest, then changed into her dance gear and practiced the basics for an hour in

to her room to wash up and hit the sack.

next day. Lizetta woke up and instinctively

was cold as ice, empty as could be.

Laughable, really.

man who promised to come back, to make amends, to fulfill his husbandly duties, locked her up here, and then didn’t come home all

she couldn’t keep