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.

Lizetta

fall asleep that night, and it was

woke her up the next

to introduce her to a dance troupe, so Lizetta had to get up early

up, elbowing not the mattress but the solid abdomen of the man beside

from behind het

to murder your husband first thing in

her ear, making her neck shiver in avoidance.

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

I hit your wound?” Lizetta

not loosening his grip. His chin rubbed against the top of her

linger in bed, but recent events, including a threat of divorce and his injury, coupled

when he was holding her, her subtle fragrance was exceptionally

voice and actions as signs

arm and sat up, saying, “I

him vanished, and the comfort of the

eyes and sat

me