Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Summer City was near to Zion City, only a two-hour drive.

A convoy of luxury cars sped through the night, with one man sitting in one of them and making call after call. His grim profile reflected against the window made Ray, sitting in the passenger seat, too nervous to even breathe too loudly.

The Lee family were the big fish in Summer City, looking to expand their territory up north, but that was Remington territory. If the Lees wanted a piece of the pie, they needed Remington's say-so. They weren't exactly playing by the book, and Remington had already turned them down once. But now, Ray heard that Remington was back in touch with the Lees.

Remington was willing to make concessions, willing to turn Summer City upside down if it meant finding his wife.

After wrapping up a few urgent calls, Remington turned to Ray.

"Was Yolanda at the West family dinner?"

"Yeah, Mr. Sterling brought her along."

Remington's voice was cold, "Send some of our best to keep an eye on her!"

know where Lizetta was, the latter would surely reach out to her eventually. Given that Lizetta was pregnant with Daisy, and Yolanda was like a sister to her, it wasn't out of the question that Yolanda might've left to help her

needed to watch

Dashiell plotted it and left

But Remington's

she cherished the flowers he gave her yesterday, and that tender hug before

that his efforts of being her company were making a difference, that

along, to

felt like a gaping

his chest, a chilling wind slicing through, freezing his blood, a slow, excruciating pain that drove him to the brink of madness yet left him feeling

lips went pale, "Huh, is staying by my side so

Remington's

little girl had really grown up, thinking she could just disappear from his

wouldn't allow her to leave.

handle herself, and she's got a temper. If

seeing that Remington had dismissed the possibility of Lizetta being