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?

shut against the burning pain, while Lizetta opened hers at

by the

amicably. I don't deserve it, and

silently

away, leaving

we'll finalize the paperwork and then... let's never see

as he opened

way? Is there really no chance for

twitched slightly. "Unless Daisy comes

was no

her, his

however, had already closed her eyes. Moments later, footsteps sounded

man closed the hospital room door behind him, he heard a muffled

in the blankets, barely

doorknob was almost enough to snap

Cassius. Cassius had taken Yolanda to Windale for an audition for a lead role in a

roadside from the rough ride. Yolanda stormed straight at Remington,

"Stand down."