Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

In the car, leaving the old Dashiell estate, Lizetta slightly lifted her head from beneath the blanket. "Something wrong? Need some water?" Yolanda immediately grasped Lizetta's hand with concern.

With a slight smile, Lizetta gestured for help to sit up a bit more.

Yolanda carefully propped her up, treating her as delicately as one would a porcelain doll, while Mrs. Bernice Madden, sitting beside them, busied herself wrapping Lizetta snugly in the blanket again. Once semi-upright, Lizetta turned her gaze to Jerome in the driver's seat.

Noticing her movements, Jerome had already slowed the car, keeping watch through the rearview mirror.

Their eyes met in the mirror, Jerome waiting silently for her to speak.

"Could you please take me to Skyline Hospital? I had already arranged with my senior to be admitted there."

the car accident and significant blood loss, the doctors were concerned about potential complications due to the large transfusion. They advised that Lizetta stay in the hospital for at least a couple of weeks to ensure she was

behind swiftly, she wasn't

she spoke, Mrs. Bernice Madden's eyes welled up, clutching

with me again? You promised," she pleaded, her voice cracking. "No, we need to go home now, speed up,

Bernice Madden on the verge of tears, quickly

I'm sick. Once I'm better, I promise to come home,

could have a doctor come to the

Bernice Madden remembered all too well. Lizetta

support, she looked

care of you. How would it look if we just dropped you off at the hospital now?"

face twisted with embarrassment and

didn't even know she had left the

staying with the Maddens for her recovery was still a question. Lizetta hadn't forgotten that the Maddens had another family