Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

Remington Dashiell stepped forward, bending down to pick up the vase that had fallen.

Faintly, he heard the distant murmur of conversation from the room next door, mingled with the voices of two young men.

One was Jerome Madden, and the other sounded like Hogan White.

Quite the gathering, it seemed.

Remington's lips tightened slightly as he held the vase, turning back to the adjacent room.

Ray couldn't help but show a trace of sentiment as he saw Remington enter with the vase in hand.

"The flowers the boss went through so much trouble to get, and it's been less than an hour since they sneaked into the lady's room before being discovered," Ray remarked with a slight shake of his head.

He hurried forward to take the vase. "The missus didn't destroy the flowers; they came out looking pretty good. Guess she's not that mad at you after all."

Ray tried to comfort Remington.

Remington gave him a glance and scoffed, "You think because she didn't smash the vase over my head, it's an improvement, huh?"

Ray indeed thought so. After all, the lady might very well have done just that under other circumstances.

did smash it over Mr. Remington Dashiell's head, he'd still have to take it,

gaze, Ray immediately

ever bring herself

Gardenia had returned, eventually helping

his thoughts shifted to Nelson Madden's recent attitude toward him. Sitting on the hospital bed, he turned

hospital where Liz was born, the list of mothers from that week, did you get

why Remington was suddenly bringing

nodded. "Got it, but I haven't had the

background, given she

with Lizetta's recent incident, that investigation had been put on hold, and the information hadn't

Remington, his voice

quickly pulling up

swiftly scrolled through the document, they paused at

Elsa Madden!

year, Elsa had also given birth at Rainbow

in Remington's demeanor, glanced at the screen and was equally

Ms. Madden give birth in a small hospital in

trailed off, realizing

the missus, could it not be