Startled, Lizetta Gardenia quickly leaned over, gently soothing Fiona Dashiell's chest while speaking in a rushed, anxious tone.
"Don't say that! What are you talking about, Grandma? Quick, knock on wood."
As she spoke, Lizetta grabbed Fiona's hand, forcing her fingers together with her own, and firmly rapped on the wooden nightstand twice.
"Don't be scared, Liz. That day comes for everyone, but Grandma truly wants to see you and Remington have another child. I want to see you both..."
"Rest assured, Grandma. Remington and I..."
Meeting the elderly woman's dim, tired eyes, a sharp pang of heartache gripped Lizetta's chest.
At that moment, even if Fiona had asked her to jump off a building, she would have seriously considered it.
All the older woman wanted was for her and Remington Dashiell to be happy together.
Anxious, she instinctively opened her mouth to agree to the request, but the tall man standing beside them abruptly interrupted, staring right at Fiona.
"That's enough acting. Do you really not see that you're terrifying her?"
Lizetta froze. She looked at Remington in pure shock, then turned her gaze back to the supposedly frail woman in the hospital bed.
Clearly, if Fiona were truly clinging to her last breath, Remington wouldn't be speaking to her with such dry sarcasm.
Sure enough, a second later, the weak, sickly expression vanished from Fiona's face. The dullness in her eyes was instantly replaced by a sharp, spirited glare.
Suddenly grabbing a plastic pill bottle from the nightstand, she launched it straight at Remington's chest and snapped.
"You ungrateful brat! If you hadn't insisted on keeping me in the dark about Liz's accident, treating me like I was deaf and blind, do you think I would've ended up in the hospital from the stress? If anyone scared Liz, it's you, not me! Who do you think I'm breaking my back for here? You absolute jerk!"
He was completely useless at winning his own wife back, leaving her to put on this whole theatrical performance just to help him out. Did he think this was easy for her?
And yet, this bastard had the nerve to expose her on the spot. Did he have no respect for her dignity at her age?
Fiona glared daggers at him, but Remington's expression didn't even twitch.
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The readers' comments on the novel: Shattered Illusions Love Lies and Redemption (Lizetta and Remington)
Does evil really triumph always above the good in this novel ? How comes Stella's evilness has no end? Does the author believes that by giving justice and importance to bad people like Stella will make this novel interesring? I am starting to lose my patience and ask when will the writer finally will realize that the protagonist is Lizetta and not Stella....
Update pls thanks!...
This novel is too sad. When will Lizetta experience real happiness. Why is her life so miserable.. Author pls bring changes in the story....
Removed the 5 Chapters per day if you can't keep up to it....