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

her price,

she even worth? I’d say ten grand

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 you’re auctioning yourself off at a

looked over, causing an inexplicable drop in

a sultry gaze and taunted, “Do you have any

build. Consider this meal on

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

The man finally spoke, his voice chilling and

beat. Although she did not know L’s

he seemed intrigued, Roselyn immediately flashed a 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

the sight of the black