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.]

with a

out her

she even worth? I’d

Whitney became the

could not stomach. She pinched her face mockingly and said, “What’s

frowned and looked over, causing an inexplicable

strolled over with a sultry gaze and taunted, “Do you

Consider this meal on me,

‘thug boyfriend, to trample her underfoot and show her up in the

man finally spoke, his

not

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

eyes narrowed slightly at the sight of