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,

spinning her around, her laughter

And then

filled with youthful musings amusingly, he wasn’t its main subject.

memorized

for that night four

asleep?” Lizetta’s voice suddenly broke the silence, jolting

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

“What’s up?”

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start a racing tmck, which naturally led her

abroad.

Remington yet and was eager to

my study abroad plans. I don’t want to give up on them. With Donies busy touring the world and unable to

going to need her mother. Maybe we should reconsider your study abroad plans

she went abroad, they’d be forced to spend

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

and a baby on the way, Remington didn’t

with

Jay

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

was more stable and their child a bit older, if

only twenty–two, with a long dance career ahead of her. Remington

so soon after giving 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.