Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 330

Lizetta was blissfully unaware that the man lying in the hospital bed had turned as cold as ice.

Remington’s gaze shifted from the joyous figure of the woman to the closed eyelids of his own contemplation

Memories began to flood his mind

Ever since Lizetta arrived at the Dashiell household, she had been sensible and well behaved, but her interactions with Lucian were

different

From a young age, she refused to call him in a formal way.

As kids, they’d occasionally tussle and bicker, acting like the best of frenemies.

In Lucian’s presence, Lizetta was her true, lively self, a stark contrast to the overly polite girl she was around Remington

Her first time getting drunk was with Lucian, and she even called out his name in her sleep afterward.

Her first all–nighter was spent at the beach with Lucian, watching the stars.

For Lizetta’s college graduation, Remington, despite being severely injured abroad, rushed back to celebrate with her.

In the campus grounds. Lucian lifted her in her graduation gown, refusing to let her down, balancing her on his shoulder.

She playfully tugged at Lucian’s hair, half–annoyed, half–amused.

now, Lucian? You’re such a pest!”

laughter mingling with his under the sun–drenched

And then

in Remington’s office drawer, filled with youthful musings amusingly, he wasn’t its

masochistically memorized every page.

four years

voice suddenly broke the silence, jolting

flash of deep emotion in his eyes, but it vanished as quickly

“What’s up?”

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plans to start a racing tmck, which naturally led

abroad.

Remington yet and was eager

I don’t want to give up on them. With Donies busy touring the world and unable to teach, and being born soon, it’s the perfect timing for me

slightly. “Joy is going to need her mother. Maybe we should reconsider your study abroad

they’d be forced to spend

were apart, he missed crucial moments of her youth, allowing Lucian to take

with their marriage finally on the mend and a baby

with

Jay

dance, and there were plenty of opportunities right here in her homeland, with top dance companies willing to take her in she

stable and their child a bit older, if she still

twenty–two, with a long dance career ahead of her. Remington felt there was

birth, her body needed time to recover, and diving back into intense dance rehearsals for eight or nine hours a day was out of the question.