Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

“Spit on them, boys! Break this old fool!” They shouted.

After having their fun, the assailants left, cursing as they went.

Yvonne, her beauty marred, spoke with venom yet dared not curse, “Sir, who were they? They seem to be ordinary thugs, but we haven’t crossed anyone like them recently!”

A realization struck Preston. “It’s Whitney… Didn’t she get mixed up with some riffraff? Tonight, I tricked her into a miscarriage, and she got them to retaliate! The ungrateful wench. And it’s your fault for that rotten idea, making me please Monica by getting rid of her child!”

Yvonne replied with cold resentment, “I was just trying to keep Monica happy for Simon, okay? If we get rid of Whitney, we keep control of the company.”

She kept babbling as Preston was busy calling an ambulance.

Then, looking at the news on his phone, Preston’s face turned pale as a sheet.

[Breaking News: The Valentine Corporation’s CEO’s wife, a former adult film star!]

[High society lady, Yvonne Valentine, involved in explicit videos, supported by wealthy businessmen.]

[Preston Valentine, the fall guy.]

screen shone brightly; Yvonne

anger, received a mocking text from a business tycoon, [Preston, your wife’s trending! Was she really an adult film star? No

irony in those words infuriated Preston, who

Yvonne said guiltily, “That’s

“You had so many sordid affairs in the past? Now they’re out in the open, and you dragged my reputation down with

be Whitney… It’s too coincidental tonight. We tried to

me a fall guy? Get out!” Preston, spitting blood in

next day

The next day.

Whitney awoke and saw the news, her first

sleep, confessed without denial, “Yeah, it was me. I dug up all of Yvonne’s dirty laundry overnight and gave

Yvonne and Preston got beaten up by some gang and ended

the good Samaritan was who

froze. Beaten up

she found her thoughts drifting to last night when

me.”

answer. A slight smile curved her lips. Despite his misunderstanding of

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