Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 308

“Remi, I’m sorry. I won’t ask anymore. If you don’t want to talk about it, then we can leave it all behind.”

Remington’s eyelashes fluttered slightly as he took Lizetta’s hand, planting a couple of soft kisses on her knuckles.

His expression had settled down a bit, and he wrapped his arm around Lizetto’s waist, his lips barely parting as he began to speak

“Quinn and Evelina were never an item. It was at a party where Quinn accidentally got drugged by a rival, and Evelina just happened to be there. That night, Evelina was forced into a situation she didn’t choose, and somehow, she ended up pregnant. Evelina didn’t want to keep the baby initially, but the Hawthome Group faced some financial troubles. In exchange for her agreement to keep the child, I invested in the Hawthorne Group and provided Evelina with resources to boost her career in the entertainment Industry”

Because of all this, Remington felt a sense of guilt towards Evelina.

After all, being forced to carry and give birth to the child of an assailant was not something any woman would find joy

Moreover the child would grow up fatherless.

expected the

felt Evelina lacked genuine maternal affection towards her unborn

so recklessly, even to the point of pushing

and Martin don’t know about the

son. She couldn’t take any more bad news. Evelina had a risky pregnancy

voice trailed off,

more so to Martin’s unethical decision to keep Quinn’s death

any more surprises because of this child

had lived honorably, would have his memory tamished by the scandalous circumstances surrounding Evelina’s child.

so much at stake, revealing the child’s paternity would unravel too many

in the late stages of lung cancer, recalling how frail and aged she appeared last time they met, even needing a wheelchair

with your grandmother’s wishes to have Evelina undergo amniocentesis. You were worried the child might not be Quinn’s because Evelina had

but she felt Remington could have shared this with her privately, trusting