Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Her laugh in the car that day, light and breezy, has been a melody in his heart these past few days, making him feel uplifted, filled with hopeful ambition.

He had mapped out the time, plotting how to woo her, to start fresh, to love like teenagers falling for the first time.

He even planned on being there for her after the birth, to support her through the postpartum period, to take care of her and the baby...

But he hadn't anticipated it all crumbling down so suddenly, turning into nothing but wishful thinking.

What he least expected was to hear from her own lips that she was willing to give him another chance. Yet, that chance slipped through his fingers in the most brutal way imaginable, piercing his heart with profound pain.

"Liz, I..."

He wanted to say, give me another chance, we're still so young, we can have more children.

But such words choked in his throat, unsaid.

He knew how tender her heart was towards him.

Time and again, she approached him, bleeding, crying.

It was his fault, again. How could he ask for yet another chance?

his eyes shut against the burning pain, while Lizetta opened hers at

saw his rigid silhouette by the bed

over, part ways amicably. I

tear rolled silently

it away, leaving

we'll finalize the paperwork

as he opened his

it have to be this way? Is there really no chance for us

slightly. "Unless Daisy

no

looked at her, his expression heavier than

her eyes. Moments later, footsteps sounded as Remington

behind him,

deep in the blankets, barely

the doorknob was

audition for a lead role in a period drama at a director's recommendation. Yolanda had ditched the director's

Cassius barely keeping it together, vomiting several times by the roadside from the rough ride. Yolanda stormed straight at Remington, her face a mask of fury. The bodyguards

"Stand down."