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

find out her price, will you?]

she’s pregnant. What’s she even

enough, Whitney became the group’s

face mockingly and said, “What’s with the act, darling? In the group chat, they’re treating you like

man opposite frowned and looked over, causing

superiority. She strolled over with a sultry gaze and

pinched the man’s chin, “You’ve got a decent build. Consider

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

me?” The man finally

did not know L’s true identity, she knew

black card, her eyes mocking Whitney. “This is Monica’s black card. 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