Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Whitney’s Facebook pinged.

Opening the app, she was horrified to see Roselyn had posted the photo in their college group with a scoffing caption,

[Come see the former campus queen with her thug boyfriend, caught in the act. She’s dining and dashing at Southern Elegance Club. Stay tuned for the live stream of her getting kicked out.]

The group exploded. Whitney had been a goddess on campus, secretly admired by numerous high society young men. Now, they recoiled as if they had swallowed flies.

[How’d she end up like this, with a thug?]

[I felt sorry for her after the kidnapping news, but she’s clearly promiscuous.]

time with a thug? Spend a

her

she even worth? I’d say ten grand

enough, Whitney became the

could not stomach. She pinched her face mockingly and said, “What’s with the act, darling? In the group chat, they’re treating you like you’re auctioning

the man opposite frowned and looked over, causing an

eyeing her, Roselyn felt a surge of superiority. She strolled over with a sultry gaze and taunted, “Do

Consider this meal

to trample her underfoot and show her up

me?” The man finally

she did not know L’s

black card. Simon got it for her at the Southern Elegance Club. Whitney, I remember you used to

at the sight of the black