Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

In the courtyard, Edith's face was as pale as sheet, watched over by two bodyguards.

Upon seeing Remington emerge, Edith immediately broke free from the bodyguards and rushed forward, dropping to her knees with a thud. She opened her mouth, hoping to plead for mercy, but Remington was concerned she might wake Lizetta, who was sleeping upstairs.

With a glance from him, the bodyguard covered Edith's mouth and dragged her away.

"Mmmph."

Tears and snot streamed down Edith's face as she was filled with regret and fear. She knew if she couldn't seize this opportunity to plead for herself, what awaited her would be severe punishment.

But Remington obviously didn't give her that chance. Edith watched helplessly as the man got into his car, which then sped away.

Despair filled Edith's eyes as the two bodyguards dragged her out of Oakridge Heights.

"Get lost, you traitor," one of the bodyguards sneered.

felt even more terrified. She got up from the ground, "Mr. Dashiell is really letting me

laugh,

with Remington's wife and baby, and in

was bribed to betray her employer and let Evelina into Oakridge Heights because her husband and son had fallen into gambling addiction, owing a large sum of gambling debts. This time, Remington

had betrayed her boss; the home she tried to preserve would be probably

bodyguards left, she swayed and sat down hard on

an hour later, at Riverbend

sitting on the couch with a sour

bodyguards, both Ray's men. Highly skilled and stubborn, they only took orders

having brought her back from the hospital and watched over her closely,

surged. She grabbed

"Remington!"

scattering across the floor. That vase was a treasure Hanna had won at an auction, and she immediately

Lizetta's mother-in-law. I just wanted her to have a simple amniocentesis test. What's the big deal? Why treat me like this, as if I'm some sort