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.]

a thug? Spend a night

her price, will you?]

even worth? I’d say ten

enough, Whitney became the

her face mockingly and said, “What’s with

over, causing an

sultry gaze and taunted, “Do you have any idea what this meal costs? Whitney is flat broke;

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

wanted to snatch Whitney’s so–called ‘thug boyfriend, to trample her underfoot and show her up in the

me?” The man finally spoke, his voice chilling and

heart skipped a beat. Although she did not know L’s true identity,

Simon got it for her at the Southern Elegance Club. Whitney, I remember you used to come here for business, too. How come Simon never got you

at the sight of the