Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

His fingers trembled slightly, and for a moment, he thought she had awoken.

But she hadn't. It was just the restlessness of dreams, her eyes closed as she turned in her sleep.

Yet, the taste of bitterness swelled in Remington's heart, the agony and pain torturing him, driving him to the brink of madness.

Liz, do you despise me that much?

Even in your dreams, you're repelling and detesting me.

But what can I do when even entering your dreams brings me a slight thrill of joy?

Lizetta's discomfort pulled Remington back to reality.

She lay on her back, her brow furrowed even tighter, seemingly uncomfortable as she shifted to her side, her legs twitching slightly under the covers.

Remington had carefully read through pregnancy guides and remembered reading that during the second trimester, it's common for expectant mothers to experience numbness in their legs.

He gently warmed his hands and cautiously reached under the covers, tenderly massaging her legs.

It was dawn when Remington finally left.

As he departed, he used his jacket to brush away his footprints in the snow.

The wind picked up, swirling the snow, quickly covering all traces.

up late the

news about the West family hunting her down would

She opened the curtains to a pristine white

was clear, the snow had

gaze

the terrace of the neighbor's house about twenty meters

height, had a round head topped with a crooked red woolen hat, wrapped in a red scarf, with a row of

of fresh "Angel's Tears," the bell-shaped flowers

if her heart was being tightly

a child, Remington would also build her a snowman every year, always

his snowmen were

away

regaining composure, andet

snowman through the

her back, and she closed

was greeted by Jerome's

to go

in surprise, saying, "So

apologetic, realizing she had woken up too late, not even having

eyes deepened, a smile playing on his

that your way of asking

and magnetic, with a slight uptick in