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.

was stunned, having not expected the story to

genuine maternal

she behave so recklessly, even to the point of

don’t know about the

she had to face the grief of losing her son. She couldn’t take any more bad news. Evelina had a risky pregnancy at one point, almost miscarried, so Martin and i decided to keep it from

voice trailed off,

even more so to Martin’s unethical decision to keep

any more surprises because of

his memory tamished by the scandalous circumstances surrounding

so much at stake, revealing the child’s paternity

stages of lung cancer, recalling how frail and aged she appeared last time they

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

Lizetta understood, but she felt Remington could have shared this with her