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.

had distanced herself, Lizetta felt an indescribable ache,

fall asleep that night, and it was

alarm that woke her up the next day.

to a dance troupe, so

sit up, elbowing not the

behind het

murder your husband first

ear, making her neck shiver in avoidance.

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

your wound?”

of her head as he sleepily said, “Stay with me a bit longer

including a threat of divorce and his injury, coupled with

he was holding her,

his voice and actions as signs of attachment.

she managed to extricate Remington’s arm and sat up, saying, “I have important things

comfort of the bed seemed less inviting without her,

his eyes and sat up,

giving me