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.]

waste time with a thug?

find out her price, will you?]

even

enough, Whitney became the group’s

said, “What’s with the act, darling? In the group chat, they’re treating you like you’re auctioning yourself off

and looked over, causing an

She strolled over with a sultry gaze and taunted,

chin, “You’ve got a decent build. Consider this meal on me, and come with me. Whitney is hardly your

so–called ‘thug boyfriend, to trample her underfoot and show

The man finally spoke, his voice

Although she did not know L’s true identity, she knew

mocking Whitney. “This is Monica’s black card. Simon got it for her at the Southern Elegance Club. Whitney, I

narrowed slightly at the sight of the