Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 345

Lizetta watched them walking side by side, and for a moment, everything seemed eerily familiar.

It was as if she was witnessing the scene from their anniversary night all over again, where Remington hu lake Evelina to the emergency room.

The resemblance was uncanny.

A wave of sorrow and exhaustion swept over her, causing her fingers to tremble slightly as they clutched her phone.

She stared at the man but didn’t approach him, instead, she found herself hiding behind a nearby tree.

Remington must have felt the vibration from his phone because he took it out and swiped the screen.

Lizetta’s ears perked up as Remington’s deep, familiar voice came through

“Why didn’t you pick up just now?”

He asked, without using any particular form of address.

Was it because Stella was there, and he didn’t know how to refer to Lizetta in her presence?

Lizetta couldn’t help but wonder

She tightened her grip on her phone and asked him, “Remington, where are you? Why didn’t you come home for lunch?

Lizetta thought, if Remington was upfront about being with Stella, then she wouldn’t have to believe Evelina’s rumors.

come out and formally introduce herself

continued

if he was hiding something, or how she should react, when she heard

up with work, about to

distracted by her phone and missed a step, Remington naturally reached out to steady

thanked him with a

through the phone speaker into Lizetta’s ears.

bear to watch any longer. She tumed

someone with y you, Remington?”

eat the rose cupcakes and sugar–glazed cheesecake I had delivered from

this

noon?”

Stella’s presence

he diverted the topic to Blissful Bites‘ pastries,

ey don’t forget

men who cheat are adept at lying, their hearts seemingly capable of being in several places at once. They to show care for their wives at home while accompanying their lovers, using these gestures of concern as smoke

Lizetta couldn’t believe that Remington would stoop to

and manipulate

to try them because of the incident with

The last time Remington went to Blissful Bites for

he bringing this up

the pastries from Blissful Bites are your way of apologizing for standing

time with another woman, then thinking a box of pastries would suffice as an