Shattered Illusions Love Lies and Redemption (Lizetta and Remington) novel Chapter 991

Lizetta frowned slightly. “After everything she’s been through—her life turned upside down, locked away and tormented for years—it’s only natural her personality would change.”

Remington had thought the same at first. When Stella was finally found and brought home, the only thing familiar about her was her face; everything else felt utterly foreign.

He could no longer see a trace of the playmate from his childhood, or the older sister he remembered.

He believed that, with time and distance from all that suffering, Stella would eventually recover—her old self would return.

But as the months passed, it became clear that Stella had become someone he simply didn’t recognize.

“Didn’t Stella have amnesia when she first came back?” Lizetta asked softly. “Didn’t you ever doubt whether she was really Stella?”

Lizetta pressed her lips together, a troubling possibility flickering through her mind.

If Stella had actually undergone plastic surgery—and if it hadn’t even happened after returning to Zion City—then the truth behind all this would be terrifying.

Remington could see exactly what she was thinking.

His brow furrowed. “She did lose her memory, but in those early days, walking through familiar places would sometimes trigger memories. I even helped her try to piece things together. She remembered things only the two of us could have known.”

That was why he had never questioned Stella’s identity.

Besides, before bringing Stella home, they’d run a DNA test between her and Martin, just to be certain. Only after everything checked out did they bring her back.

Hearing Remington explain it like this, Lizetta felt she’d probably let her imagination run wild.

It was just that Mia girl who’d tossed out some careless remark about Stella having had plastic surgery, and suddenly Lizetta was seeing ghosts around every corner.

Maybe Mia had just been talking nonsense.

“Maybe I’m overthinking it,” Lizetta admitted.

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