Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Lizetta felt drained, both physically and emotionally, and she was in no mood for further conversation.

She just nodded, her voice dry, "I got it, thanks for standing up for me and Joy, ouch!"

Before she could finish, her wrist was gripped tightly by Remington, his strength surprising enough to make her cry out.

She looked up, frowning at Remington, "What the heck? You're hurting me!"

Tears of pain welled up in her eyes, and Remington's expression darkened, though he slightly loosened his grip as he coldly said, "Do you really have to talk to me like that, Lizetta?"

Now Lizetta was irritated, snatching her hand back, "How am I talking? I'm saying thank you, and even that's wrong now? If you don't like the way I speak, go bother someone else, like Evelina or Stella." "Enough! I'm talking about your issue; why drag them into this?"

Remington's handsome face turned gloomy as he interrupted Lizetta. Seeing his barely controlled rage was almost laughable to her.

was particularly upset because she mentioned Stella. She used to be scared of making him angry, always becoming meek in response, but

problem with me, and even

her defiant expression, felt his temper rising. He worried that if they kept arguing, he might lose control and pin her down as

burned within him, and nodding, he uttered in a gruff

sprang out of the bed, he

heart to race, struggling to calm down. Tears involuntarily rolled down her cheeks as she collapsed back onto the

window, a solitary figure, with a few cigarette butts in the ashtray on a nearby table. "Sir, this is the new maid,

of her,

and shortly after, she came back down

he didn't ask, Lina took the initiative to report sensitively, "Sir, the lady said she was hungry and asked for anything to

seemed like she had been crying;

she