Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Chapter 347

In the hospital, Lizetta spotted him walking with Stella and couldn’t muster the courage to step forward, opting Instead to test the

The outcome left her heartbroken.

In the darkness, Lizetta found the courge to believe in him once more, to ask him directly and clear the alr

However, Remington didn’t respond to her words. Instead, he simply pulled her into an embrace, his voice muffled or he said, “Let’s talk tomorrow, sleep now.”

Locking at his tightly shut eyes and indifferent demeanor, Lizetin felt the words stuck in her throat

Perhaps he was channeling his energy into another woman, becoming dismissive towards his wife upon returning home. Or maybe he was preemptively avoiding the question, knowing what she wanted to ask.

Which one was it with Remington, or was it both?

Lizetta used to love being in Remington’s embrace, but now, lying in his arms, listening to his steady heartbeat, and smelling his familiar scent, she felt like he was a dangerous poison she wanted to flee from.

She wriggled out of his embrace, tumed over, and faced away from Remington.

The man behind her also tumed to lie on his side, creating distance between them,

In the same bed, their backs to each other, their dreams diverged.

distanced herself, Lizetta felt an indescribable ache, her

that night, and it was 1

her up the next

dance troupe, so Lizetta had to get up early

phone rung than she attempted to sit up, elbowing not the mattress but the solid abdomen of the

from behind het freezing Lizetta

murder your husband first thing in the morning?

her ear, making her neck

remembered they had slept back to back, far apart, yet they were now clinging

hit your wound?” Lizetta

the top of her head as he sleepily said,

divorce and his injury, coupled with a heavy workload, had taken their toll

he was holding her, her

interpret his voice and actions as signs of

up, saying, “I have important things to do today, I need to get up. You should

of the bed

sat up, catching her

me an